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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781447466000
Publisher: Obscure Pr
Published: Nov 9 2012
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The detective story begins here: Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue introduces C. Auguste Dupin and the art of ratiocination to solve a savage, baffling killing in a locked Parisian room.
First published in 1841, this is the tale widely credited with inventing modern detective fiction. When two women are found brutally murdered behind bolted doors, the Paris police are helpless, and only Dupin's cool, deductive reasoning can unravel a mystery whose solution has startled readers for well over a century. Poe (1809 - 1849), the American master of the macabre and poet of The Raven, gave the genre its template: the brilliant amateur, the loyal narrator, the impossible crime, and the chain of logic that lays it bare. Every fictional detective who followed, from Sherlock Holmes onward, owes a debt to this founding story.
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