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You're half right and half-wrong, TheRozenQueen. Dupin did precede Sherlock Holmes and is considered the first detective and founder of the detective novel. However, Sherlock denounces Dupin in one of his stories as being 'a very inferior fellow'. Check out 'A Study in Scarlet' among others. Conan Doyle considered the Poe stories as very 'thin' and said a writer would rejoice if he could break out of the mold.