The Paris Mysteries

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 failed?These 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 Roget' and 'The Purloined Letter'.

Product details

• Authors: Edgar Allan Poe
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2019
• EAN: 9781782275633
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-563-3
• No. of pages: 190
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 207 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Historical mysteries, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Ghost, Classic crime, Classic horror & ghost stories, Historical crime and mysteries, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic horror and ghost stories