Murders in the Rue Morgue

160 pages

English language

Published Dec. 20, 2009 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-09-952958-3
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"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.

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Subjects

  • France, fiction
  • Paris (france), fiction
  • Dupin, auguste (fictitious character), fiction