The detective novel was invented by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841 when he published The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and with it, the first detective: C. Auguste Dupin. Dupin is eccentric, brilliant, and basically a ratiocinator (a person who uses rational thinking and logic to solve problems). Poe created this character at a time when science and the scientific method were first beginning to establish themselves as the proper way of looking at and solving problems. So he is a man of his time.
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