With Murders in the Rue Morge , Edgar Allan Poe is the inventor of the model for the modern detective story consisting of a brilliant detective, his personal friend who serves as the narrator, and the revelation of whodunit that is revealed before the explanation of how the crime was committed. More specifically, Poe is also the father of the locked room mystery, detective stories where the impossibility of the crime takes center stage. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle acknowledged that he modeled his most famous Sherlock Holmes stories after Poe's detective story model by having Watson explicitly state in the first Holmes short story: "You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin." Even though Doyle has Holmes disparage Dupin, it is apparently clear that Poe's detective stories were the model for Doyle
