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There is always a lot of controversy around questions like this. Often the debate goes back into Roman or even Greek times. But to start things off. Credit for this often goes to Edgar Allan Poe for 'Murder on the Rue Morgue.' This however is a short story not a novel. The first mystery novel I can think of would be 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' by Arther Conan Doyle.
The first full length modern mystery/detective novel was written by Wilkie Collins in 1868. It was called "The Moonstone." Doyle began writing 1880's. "Baskervilles" came out in 1901.<----this is false the id doesn't matter if it was a short story. It was the first Mystery NOVEL written.
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∙ 14y ago
The first mystery story is often credited to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which was published in 1841. It is considered one of the earliest examples of the detective fiction genre.
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∙ 11y agoAlthough some critics trace the origins of the genre to such disparate works as Aesop's fables, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and the Apocrypha, most agree that the Western mystery, complete with all its conventions, emerged in 1841 with the publication of Edgar Allan Poe 's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
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∙ 12y agoE A Poe, murder in the rue Morgue and that would be in 1841.
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∙ 15y agodocter isick
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∙ 11y agoEdgar Allan Poe. :D
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