Edgar Allen Poe

   Edgar Allen Poe is respected for creating the first detective novels. His C. Auguste Dupin was the prototype on which Arthur Conan Doyle based his Sherlock Holmes mysteries. In the three Dupin mysteries, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter, the Narrator is Holmes' Dr. Watson. What Dupin calls his intuition becomes Holmes' deductive reasoning.
    Poe's writing was influenced by his turbulent personal life, and led him to create some of the most macabre mysteries, such as The Pit and the Pendulum, the Classic Horror Thriller.
    Poe died penniless, but his novels have become best-selling classics, making him one of our most respected writers of all time.
  
  

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