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C. Auguste Dupin is generally acknowledged as the first detective in fiction.

The character served as the prototype for many that were created later, including Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle and Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie.

Doyle once said, " Each Poe's detective stories is a root from which a whole literature has developed ... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?