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Which 19th-century author is generally credited with creating the genre of
the detective novel?
(A) Edgar Allan Poe
(B) Herman Melville
(C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(D) James Fennimore Cooper
(E) Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A. Edgar Allan Poe.

He wrote "Murders in the Rue Morgue" in the 1840's for a magazine, since then it has been credited as the first modern detective story.

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