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 The first detective story was "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe, published in April 1841 [in Graham's magazine]. The profession of detective had come into being only a few decades earlier, and Poe is generally thought to have been influenced by the Mémoires (1828-29) of François-Eugène Vidocq, who in 1817 founded the world's first detective bureau, in Paris. Poe's fictional French detective, C. Auguste Dupin, appeared in two other stories, "The Mystery of Marie Roget" (1845 [1842]) and "The Purloined Letter" (1845 [1844]). The detective story soon expanded to novel length.
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 William Shakespeare 1564-1610 CB3 |
 François Voltaire 1694-1778 CB4 |
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1742-1832 CB5 |
 Lord Byron 1788-1824 CB6 |
 Victor Hugo 1802-1885 CB7 |
 Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 CB8 |
 Sandor Petöfi 1823-1849 CB9 |
 Mark Twain 1835-1910 CB10 |
 Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910 CB11 |
 Maxim Gorky 1868-1936 CB12 |
(Sold at a 50% increase over face value, half of which aided the reconstruction of the Chain Bridge, and the other half the hospital for postal employees.)
