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Originally Posted by HarryT
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".
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some authors said that the dostoyevski's crime and punishment is the first detective story, but i think that the moonstone is the first one
and in my opinion auguste dupin is a good detective too
but my favourite is of course poirot
