The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Autor*in: Poe, Edgar Allan
Jahr: 2015
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 48 S.
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- A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month" Selection The precursor to Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot: Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin is blessed with the gift of intuition, and he puts it to the test after a horrible murder in the Rue Morgue. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is thought to be the first modern detective story, published by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841. In this classic tale the detective demonstrates the ineptitude of the police, the value of reason, and how it’s the seemingly least important details that often matter most. A landmark in the history of detective fiction. Selected from Vintage’s compact selection of Poe’s greatest work,Great Tales and Poems. An eBook short.
- Edgar Allan Poe was a poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic. He was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. Born Edgar Poe in Boston in 1809, he was raised in Virginia by foster parents named Allan who gave him his middle name. Poe died of unknown causes in Baltimore in 1849.
Titelinformationen
Titel: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Autor*in: Poe, Edgar Allan
Verlag: Random House Digital
ISBN: 9781101912058
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Romane & Erzählungen
Max. Ausleihdauer: 21 Tage