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The influence of these Poe stories on A. Conan Doyle was cardinal. Doyle himself publicly credits Poe; he modeled the Sherlock Holmes stories after Poe's highly successfully formula for detective fiction in these three stories: a detective of razor-sharp intellect, a bumbling narrator & a short-sighted police inspector. In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," & "The Purloined Letter," Poe stretches the possibilities of literature. Essential reading in the detective fiction genre.Poe, Edgar Allan is the author of 'First Detective Three Stories', published 2000 under ISBN 9780942208153 and ISBN 0942208153.
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