An apartment on the rue Morgue turned into a charnel house; the corpse of a shopgirl dragged from the Seine; a high-stakes game of political blackmail-three mysteries that have enthralled the whole of Paris,and baffled the city's police. The brilliant Chevalier Auguste Dupin investigates - can he find the solution where so many others before him have failedThese three stories from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe are some of the most influential ever written,widely praised and credited with inventing the detective genre. This edition contains:'The Murders in the Rue Morgue','The Mystery of Marie Rog锚t'and'The Purloined Letter'.
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Publisher: Pushkin PressISBN: 9781782275633Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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Each (of Poe's detective stories) is a root from which a whole literature has developed... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into itHe wasn't just a mystery/suspense writer. He was the firstWhat a strange,though enormously talented writer,that Edgar Poe!Poe was the first to write the detective story as we know it today... Like printing,the detective story has been improved upon only in a mechanical way since it was first invented; as artistic products,Gutenberg's Bible and Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" have never been surpassedAn ideal Christmas present for a dedicated crime fan... A perfect winter evening read
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