“The subject of priority in scientific discovery is a prickly one, since original scientific contributions are prized and multiple independent discoveries do occur [Dimand and Dimand, 1992, 24].” Regarding game theory, in 1713, “James Waldegrave provided the first minimax mixed strategy solution of a two-person game of strategy” [ibid., 25], but he made no extension of his solution of the card game le Her to other games, and John von Neumann [(1928) 1997] deserves the credit for the first general “proof of the existence of a maximin equilibrium for a broad class of games [Dimand and Dimand, 1997, xix].” Similarly, searching for firsts within the range of literature is not easy. Regarding detective literature, the appearance, in 1841, of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, written by Poe (1809-1849), “marked the birth of the detective story [van Doren Stern, 1977, xxv].” More precisely, Poe’s three detective stories – “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” [MRM], “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” [MMR] and “The Purloined Letter” [PL] 1 – are pioneer works. However, Chevalier Auguste Dupin, the hero of these three “Tales of Mystery and Ratiocination”, is not the first detective character appearing in a literary work. For example, the central character of Zadig ou la Destinée [Voltaire, (1747) 1998] has the “quasi-divinatory skills” [Lacassin, 1993, 23] that Poe gives to Dupin. Moreover, Poe is generally thought to have been influenced by the Mémoires of François Eugène Vidocq, who in 1817 founded the world’s first detective bureau, in Paris[1]. [1] Myerson, R. Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.