Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: C. Auguste Dupin an yarda da shi a matsayin mai bincike na farko a cikin fiction. Halin ya zama samfurin ga mutane da yawa waɗanda aka ƙirƙira daga baya, gami da Sherlock Holmes na Arthur Conan Doyle da Hercule Poirot na Agatha Christie. Conan Doyle ya taɓa rubuta, "Kowane [labarin ɗan leƙen asirin Poe] tushen tushe ne wanda duka adabi ya samo asali... Ina labarin mai binciken har sai Poe ya numfasa numfashin rai a ciki?"Yawancin abubuwan da za su zama na yau da kullun a cikin almara na ɗan leƙen asirin sun fara bayyana a cikin labaran Poe: ɗan leƙen asirin mai ban mamaki amma mai haske, ɗan sanda mai rikici, labarin mutum na farko ta kusa aboki na sirri. Dupin kuma yana fara na'urar ba da labari inda ɗan leƙen asirin ya sanar da maganinsa sannan ya bayyana dalilin da ya kai ga hakan. Kamar Sherlock Holmes, Dupin yana amfani da ƙwarewar sa da kuma lura don warware laifuka. Poe kuma yana nuna 'yan sanda a cikin wani yanayi mara kyau a matsayin nau'i na mai bincike. Halin ya taimaka wajen kafa nau'in labarun bincike, wanda ya bambanta da fiction na asiri, tare da girmamawa kan bincike kuma ba gwaji da kuskure ba. Brander Matthews ya rubuta: "Littafin ɗan leƙen asirin gaskiya kamar yadda Poe ya yi tunaninsa ba a cikin asirin kansa ba, amma a cikin matakan da suka biyo baya wanda mai lura da bincike ya sami damar magance matsalar da za a iya watsi da ita a matsayin wanda ya wuce fahimtar mutum". A zahiri, a cikin labaran guda uku da Dupin ya fito, Poe ya ƙirƙiri nau'ikan almara uku waɗanda suka kafa abin koyi ga duk labaran nan gaba: nau'in jiki ("The Murders in the Rue Morgue"), na tunani ("The Mystery of Marie Rogêt"), da daidaitaccen sigar duka biyun ("The Purloined Letter"). Fyodor Dostoevsky ya kira Poe "mai hazaka sosai marubuci" kuma ya sake nazarin labaran Poe na sirri. Halin Porfiry Petrovich a cikin littafin Dostoevsky na Laifi da Hukunci Dupin ya rinjayi shi.  Tambaya: Wanene ya taka rawa na farko a cikin labarun Poe?
C. Auguste Dupin