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The first mystery novel was invented to justify nosiness as a genre.

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Detective fiction took shape in the 19th century with Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Readers enjoy puzzles, but genre origin has nothing to do with nosiness.

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