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Short story · 1841

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe

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Short story · 1841 · American · Romantic

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe

C. Auguste Dupin solves an impossible locked-room killing in Paris.

Detective fictionShort storyReasonObservationViolence

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The birth certificate of detective fiction: the brilliant amateur, the admiring narrator, the baffled police, and ratiocination as spectacle.

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C. Auguste Dupin solves an impossible locked-room killing in Paris.

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