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The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and Other Tales
A Locked Room Opened by Pure Reasoning
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eBook - ePub
The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and Other Tales
A Locked Room Opened by Pure Reasoning
About this book
Poe at his most methodical: Dupin opening the locked room of the Rue Morgue and then solving a real New York murder from the newspapers in The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, the cipher and the buried treasure of The Gold-Bug, a balloon voyage to the moon, the transatlantic Balloon-Hoax that a New York paper printed as news, a manuscript thrown from a doomed ship, and the oval portrait that drains its sitter. Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story in these pages and sold it to a Philadelphia magazine. The volume opens with an appreciation of Poe and a contemporary account of his death. The horror is in the procedure, not the shriek. Forty-one plates, from Fuseli's Weird Sisters to Odilon Redon, gather the uncanny and the criminal that Poe's reasoning only half explains.
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LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Edgar Allan Poe an Appreciation
- Death of Edgar A. Poe. By N. P. Willis
- The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
- Notes to Hans Pfaal
- The Gold-Bug
- Four Beasts in One—The Homo-Cameleopard
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- The Mystery of Marie Roget. A Sequel to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”
- Footnotes—Marie Rogêt
- The Balloon-Hoax
- Ms. Found in a Bottle
- The Oval Portrait
- About the Author
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