Poe's Dupin blazes a trail and sets the standard for the mystery genre. The main character is a memorable one and Poe keeps us guessing, but the reveal stretches belief a bit and the story in general lacks some of the refinement we see later in Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes novels that Poe inspires here.
Poe deserves recognition for the pioneering quality of Murders in the Rue Morgue, but the Dupin stories are unfortunately overshadowed by the later, greater works which evolve and refine the genre.
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