History of crime fiction (1839) and Maurits Christopher Hansen's ""Mordet paa Maskinbygger Roolfsen" - The Murder of Engineer Roolfsen" (1839). An example of an early crime/revenge story is the American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe's (1809–1849) tale "The Cask of Amontillado", published in 1846. Poe created the first fictional detective (a word unknown at the time) in the character of C. Auguste Dupin, as the central character of some of his short stories (which he called "tales of ratiocination"). In the words of William L. De Andrea ("Encyclopedia Mysteriosa", 1994), he One of the early developments started by Poe was the
The Invisible Detective a darkened room. In fact, Brandon Lake does not exist; he was invented by the four children, who investigate all his cases themselves. Art plays the Invisible Detective in weekly sessions held in a darkened room, during which the Detective addresses the concerns of local residents, in exchange for a small fee. Each book also has a parallel subplot set in the 2000s, where Art's grandson, also named Art, and his friend Sarah have related mysteries to solve. The titles in the series are: The series revolves around the cases of eponymous detective, Brandon Lake. The books' protagonists are the