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Murder, mystery, and solving crime-the foundations of detective fiction.
Meet C. Auguste Dupin, the first literary example of a brilliant detective created by Edgar Allan Poe, undisputed master of chills and suspense. Follow Dupin's genius skill at problem solving through three detective cases, Poe's only three tales with his seminal character.
In these fundamental works of detective fiction, explore the idea that objects can be hidden in plain sight, that the murderer is not who or what you'd think.
Contains
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"The Mystery of Marie Roget"
"The Purloined Letter"
"the Father of the Modern Mystery, the originator of the detective story, the man who created an entire genre"-Kristine Kathryn Rusch, USA Today bestselling author, from her Foreword
About the author
One of the most Gothic short story writers of the nineteenth century, Edgar Allan Poe was a predominant figure of the Romantic movement in American literature and is regarded as the inventor of the detective story. His literary career began with Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827) but it was his deftly plotted short stories which attracted attention. He was also a noticeable literary critic and an unwearying reviewer and essayist. The recurring themes in his works-the death of women, bereavement, horror, madness, premature burial, decay, revival of the dead, life after death-are suggested to have resulted from his own life, which was a sequence of tragic events and frequent abandonments. Poe skillfully weaved these themes into his meticulous plots and created the macabre world of terror and dark romanticism bringing alive the horror through his choice of words. More than a century and a half after Poe's death, his works still remain as fresh and scary, sending a frightening chill down the spines of his readers.
