Murders in the Rue Morgue

Informationen zum Autor Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty. Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club , published in more than thirty languages and forty countries. His other books include The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens . Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Klappentext Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty. Zusammenfassung WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MATTHEW PEARLEdgar Allan Poe invented detective fiction with these three mesmerising stories of a young eccentric named C.

Product details

• Authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allen Poe
• Assisted by: Matthew Pearl (Introduction), Pearl Matthew (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780099529583
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952958-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Crime, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary