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Poe’s famous detective story is credited with inspiring an entire genre—the first case of the celebrated private detective, Dupin. When two women are found murdered in the most gruesome and mysterious circumstances in their apartment in the Rue Morgue, the Parisian police are baffled. Not only is one of the corpses stuffed feet first up a chimney in a room locked from the inside, but the other is hideously mutilated and lying in the yard outside. The voices of the two assailants were clearly heard by multiple witnesses, but no trace can be found of them. Once Dupin takes an interest in the case, however, his superb powers of observation and deduction lead him to a most remarkable and yet self-evident conclusion.
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“For their supernatural grotesquerie and graveyard doom,[Poe’s stories] foreshadow Stephen King and the ‘southern gothic’ of Truman Capote…His greatest tales radiate a dark humor and mockery that strike an oddly modern note.”
— Sunday Times
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“The best detective in fiction…Dupin is unrivalled”
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“If genius is an exceptional capacity for imaginative creation, Poe had it in spades. With Dupin in The Murders In The Rue Morgue, he created the first detective story before the word detective existed.”
— Daily Mail
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About Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1848) transformed the American literary landscape with his innovations in the short story genre and his haunting lyrical poetry, and he is credited with inventing American gothic horror and detective fiction. He was first published in 1827 and then began a career as a magazine writer and editor and a sharp literary critic. In 1845 the publication of his most famous poem, “The Raven,” brought him national fame.
About Cathy Dobson
Cathy Dobson is the author of Planet Germany and a narrator of audiobooks.