🕵️‍♂️ Before Sherlock Holmes… there was Edgar Allan Poe. In the 1840s, Poe invented the detective story—and changed literature forever. Let’s explore his famous mysteries 🧵

Poe created C. Auguste Dupin, the first modern detective. Brilliant, eccentric, and driven by pure logic, Dupin became the blueprint for Holmes, Poirot, and beyond.

The first detective story ever written. Case: Two women murdered in a locked Paris apartment. Twist: The killer wasn’t human… but an escaped orangutan. 🦧