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HUNGARY 1948 C. Auguste Dupin Edgar Allan Poe Jan. 19, 1809 (Boston, Mass.) - Oct. 7, 1849 (Baltimore, Md.) "The father of the detective story" Oct. 16, 1948. photogravure. perf. 12 × 12½ air post semi-postal Scott #CB8 the rest of the set

Poe Bulgaria 2009 Hungary 1948 Monaco 2009 Nicaragua 1972 San Marino 2009 São Tomé e Príncipe 2009 US 1949 US 2009

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The first detective story was "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe, published in April 1841 [in Graham's magazine]. The profession of detective had come into being only a few decades earlier, and Poe is generally thought to have been influenced by the Mémoires (1828-29) of François-Eugène Vidocq, who in 1817 founded the world's first detective bureau, in Paris. Poe's fictional French detective, C. Auguste Dupin, appeared in two other stories, "The Mystery of Marie Roget" (1845 [1842]) and "The Purloined Letter" (1845 [1844]). The detective story soon expanded to novel length. Britannica.com 2000

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Writers
airpost semi-postal Scott CB3-CB12

William Shakespeare 1564-1610 CB3

François Voltaire 1694-1778 CB4

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1742-1832 CB5

Lord Byron 1788-1824 CB6

Victor Hugo 1802-1885 CB7

Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 CB8

Sandor Petöfi 1823-1849 CB9

Mark Twain 1835-1910 CB10

Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910 CB11

Maxim Gorky 1868-1936 CB12

(Sold at a 50% increase over face value, half of which aided the reconstruction of the Chain Bridge, and the other half the hospital for postal employees.)