The chief literary precedent for detective and crime fiction is Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), and his other "tales of ratiocination," with their emphasis on logical deduction in solving a crime.
Closer to Christie is Arthur Conan Doyle and his Sherlock Holmes tales.
Conan Doyle introduced the eccentric amateur detective, his less sharp- witted chronicler (Poirot's Watson is Captain Hastings), the atmosphere of the English countryside and of London, the.....
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