The Murders in the Rue Morgue and the Purloined Letter - Unabridged: Two Edgar Allan Poe Classics!

by Edgar Allan Poe, Kevin Theis (Editor)

Overview

Edgar Allan Poe - the Master of Horror - was also responsible for writing the first detective stories in history.  His master sleuth, the elusive logician C. Auguste Dupin, is the man the police turn to when they find themselves unable to solve a mystery.

Here are two of Poe's Dupin stories in a single volume, one involving blackmail of the royal family and the other...a tale of two brutal murders in the heart of Paris!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949661057
Publisher:	Ft. Raphael Publishing Company
Publication date:	08/24/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	81
File size:	241 KB

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.