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Originally Posted by crich70
Of course the genre really gets its start wtih E.A. Poe though I don't think his mystery stories are as well known as the other two.
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Poe's "Auguste Dupin" stories of the 1840s are certainly the first example of English detective fiction, but the first recognisably modern detective novel was Wilkie Collins's "The Moonstone", published in 1868. That introduced many of the elements which subsequently became standard for the genre: the English country house robbery, the professional investigator fighting against the incompetence of the bungling local police, a large number of false suspects, the reconstruction of the crime, and the final "twist in the tale".