We attended a lecture/performance on Edgar Allen Poe last night. The presenter stated that Poe was the first to write a detective story and the first to use the term detective. I was just trying to validate that claim.
George Bryan:
April 20th, 2018 at 4:25 pm
Edgar Allan Poe is usually considered the one to have invented the word “Detective” in his story “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” published in April of 1841.
Kevin W Parker:
June 19th, 2019 at 11:01 am
Surprisingly, the word “detective” never appears in “Murders in the Rue Morgue”. (I searched an online version of the story.)
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Bill Wolfe:
October 30th, 2013 at 4:19 pm
We attended a lecture/performance on Edgar Allen Poe last night. The presenter stated that Poe was the first to write a detective story and the first to use the term detective. I was just trying to validate that claim.
George Bryan:
April 20th, 2018 at 4:25 pm
Edgar Allan Poe is usually considered the one to have invented the word “Detective” in his story “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” published in April of 1841.
Kevin W Parker:
June 19th, 2019 at 11:01 am
Surprisingly, the word “detective” never appears in “Murders in the Rue Morgue”. (I searched an online version of the story.)