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Many credit Edgar Allan Poe as the father of the modern mystery genre due to his influential detective stories such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter." Poe's emphasis on logic, reasoning, and suspense laid the foundation for future mystery writers to explore complex puzzles and the art of deduction.
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