Excerpt from The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Vol. 4 of 10: Tales, the Detection of Crime
The five stories that are here reprinted are given a classification of their own by Stedman and Wood berry in their edition of Poe's works, as Tales of Ra tiocination. The grouping I have retained, but not the precise order, for I have wished in the present collection to throw the emphasis upon the stories as detective stories and upon the character of M. C. Auguste Dupin, who appears in but three of the five. Hence I have placed first, not The gold-bug, which is scarcely a detective story at all, though the methods employed in it for the discovery of hidden treasure are identical with those employed in the others for the detection of crime, but The Murders in the Rue Morgue, in which that talented amateur.
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