Tonight, Poe’s rue Morgue, certainly the inspiration for Doyles’ Sherlock Holmes
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though there were other stories that featured similar problem-solving characters. Das Fräulein von Scuderi (1819), by E.T.A. Hoffmann , in which Mlle de Scudery , a kind of 19th century Miss Marple , establishes the innocence of the police’s favorite suspect in the murder of a jeweler, is sometimes cited as the first detective story.