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Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSir

His tales were one of the great landmarks and starting points in the literature of the last century . . . each is a root from which a whole literature has developed. . . Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?

On Edgar Alan Poe, In a 1909 speech at the Author’s Club in London.