The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Short story by Edgar Allan Poe

Blurb

The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination." Similar works predate Poe's stories, including Das Fräulein von Scuderi (1819) by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Zadig (1748) by Voltaire. C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mysterious brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, ...

First Published

1841

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Jean.carlo.grandas.franco

I'm a great fan of Poe and this is one of his classics. The crimes of the rue Morgue is also one of his longues stories, but it is quite interesting and none of us would expect how it actually ends and who is the responsable of the continuous crimes WHich crimes?, read the story

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