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The first detective was just a person who couldn’t mind their business. Literature rewarded them.

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Detective fiction is often traced to Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841), featuring C. Auguste Dupin. Earlier stories have investigative elements, but no first detective is a nosy person.

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