The Murders in the Rue Morgue as the first detective fiction story, the character of Dupin became the prototype for many future fictional detectives, including Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. The genre is distinctive from a general mystery story in that the focus is on analysis. Poe's role in the creation of the detective story is reflected in the Edgar Awards, given annually by the Mystery Writers of America. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" also established many tropes that would become common elements in mystery fiction: the eccentric but brilliant detective, the bumbling constabulary, the first-person narration by a close
André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin "Principia Juris Civilis", 5 vols. (1806); "Mémoires et plaidoyers de 1800 au 1ier janvier 1830", in 20 vols.; and "Mémoires ou souvenirs du barreau", in 4 vols. (1855–1857). His brother, Pierre Charles François Dupin, was a mathematician. André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin (1 February 17838 November 1865), commonly called Dupin the Elder, was a French advocate, president of the chamber of deputies and of the Legislative Assembly. Dupin was born at Varzy, in the Nièvre "département", in France. He was educated by his father, who was a lawyer of eminence, and at an early age