The Murders In The Rue Morgue

Includes The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Roget andThe Purloined Letter Between 1841 and 1844 Edgar Allan Poe invented thegenre of detective f... » 

Includes The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Roget andThe Purloined Letter Between 1841 and 1844 Edgar Allan Poe invented thegenre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young Frencheccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept ofapplying reason to solving crime these tales brought Poe fame and fortune tolive on. Years later Dorothy Sayers would describe The Murders in the RueMorgue as almost a complete manual of detective theory and practice. IndeedPoes short mysteries inspired the creation of countless literary sleuthsamong them Sherlock Holmes. Today the Dupin stories still stand out as uniqueutterly engrossing pageturners. This Modern Library edition reproduces thedefinitive texts of the three tales. It includes an enlightening Introductionby novelist Matthew Pearl and an Appendix The Earliest Detectives. «