Sign in to log this.
- Author
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Publisher
- graham's magazine
- Released
- December 1, 1994
- Pages
- 50
- Readers
- 4.2★ (21)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
1841 · Book · Edgar Allan Poe
MurderFictionAmerican Detective and mystery storiesC. Auguste Dupin (Fictitious character)Fiction, mystery & detective, generalDupin, auguste (fictitious character), fiction
"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. by Edgar Allan Poe