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The Murders in the Rue Morgue

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MATTHEW PEARL Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with these three mesmerising stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin: `The Murders in the Rue Morgue`, `The Mystery of Marie Roget` and `The Purloined Letter`. Years later Dorothy Sayers would describe these tales as `almost a complete manual of detective theory and practice`. Indeed, Poe`s short mysteries inspired the creation of countless literary sleuths, among them Sherlock Holmes.Today the unique Dupin stories still stand out as utterly engrossing page-turners. This edition reproduces the definitive text of these stories and an introduction and appendix on `The Earliest Detectives` by the novelist Matthew Pearl.

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