PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Edgar Allan Poe created a new literary genre when he wrote “The Murders in the Rue Morgue .” Although mysteries were not a new literary form, Poe was the first to introduce a character that solved the mystery by analyzing the facts of the case.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Edgar Allan Poe, ‘’ he wrote, “invented the detective story in order that he might not go mad.” Arthur Conan Doyle, a man who knew a thing or two about detective stories, was quick to credit his boyhood hero with inspiring Sherlock Holmes and all the mysteries that came after.

Detailed explanation-3: -“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” Celebrated as the first modern detective story, Poe’s hero C. Auguste Dupin is featured in two subsequent tales, “The Mystery of Marie Roget” and “The Purloined Letter”, but “Rue Morgue” is the most famous, and best of the three.