<P> Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe . Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), widely considered the first detective fiction story . He reappears in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842) and "The Purloined Letter" (1844). </P> <P> C. Auguste Dupin is generally acknowledged as the first detective in fiction . The character served as the prototype for many that were created later, including Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle and Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie . Conan Doyle once wrote, "Each (of Poe's detective stories) is a root from which a whole literature has developed...Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?" </P> <P> Ellery Queen is a fictional detective - hero, created by Manfred Bennington Lee (1905 - 1971), and Frederic Dannay (1905 ~ 1982), as well as a joint pseudonym for the cousins Dannay and Lee . Ellery Queen first appeared in The Roman Hat Mystery (1929), and was the hero of more than 30 novels and several short story collections, During the 1930s and much of the 1940s, that detective - hero was possibly the best known American fictional detective . </P> <P> Many detectives appear in more than one novel or story . Here is a list of a few debut and swansong stories: </P>

Who is considered the inventor of detective fiction