Edgar Allen Poe
Everybody likes to read books or watch movies that make them think. An intriguing detective story will keep its readers on the edge of their seats. When reading these certain stories, one must wonder, "What was the first detective story?" and "Who wrote it?" The off-kilter Edgar Allen Poe was the first author of a detective story. In fact, Edgar Allen Poe's detective stories, despite the harsh criticism they received, had a major influence on the forming of the detective genre and set the basic model of the detective story we know today.
How is a detective story unique and different from the average narrative? Willard Huntington Wright once explained a detective story effectively saying, "I believe the detective novel does not fall under the head of fiction in the ordinary sense, but belongs rather in the category of riddle; it is in fact, a complicated and extended puzzle cast in fictional form" (Wright 2). The detective story is in fact a puzzle, which the reader is forced to......
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