What was the first detective novel ever written?

Longhampton

I think I've seen this question somewhere before. Believe it was "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkie_Collins [Edited to add reference - McG] May 01 04, 3:37 AM

shady shaker

Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) was the first detective story ever published. "The Moonstone" was the first detective novel published, about twenty five years later (1868). His novels include The Woman In White and The Moonstone, considered by many to be the first full length detective novel in English. http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Collins.html [Edited to add reference - McG] May 01 04, 3:52 AM

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