"Càit a bha an sgeulachd sgrùdaidh gus an do bhrosnaich Poe an anailse beatha a-steach dha?" ("The three [of Poe's detective stories] is a root from which an entire literature has developed...Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?"), sgrìobh Conan Doyle uaireigin ("The three [of Poe's detective stories] is a root from which an entire literature has developed...The enormous character is a distinguishing role from which Poe has developed...Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?") Bha mòran de na trophan a bhiodh an dèidh sin a' nochdadh ann an ficsean sgrùdaidh a' nochdadh an toiseach ann an sgeulachdan Poe: an sgrùdaire neònach ach sgoinneil, an sgrùdaire cumanta, an aithris a' chiad neach le caraid dlùth pearsanta.
C. Auguste Dupin