In his three short stories The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841), The Mystery of Marie Roget (1843) and The Purloined Letter (1844), Edgar Allan Poe invented the whodunit and the modern detective genre.

• 在他的三部小说《莫尔格街凶杀案》(1841)、《玛丽?罗杰神秘案件》(1843)和《失窃的信函》(1844)中,埃德加?艾伦?坡创造了“胡达尼特”和现代侦探小说流派。