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The Murders in the Rue Morgue

By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: Chris Lutkin
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First published in an 1841 edition of Graham's Magazine, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is often cited as the first modern detective story. The first of three stories to center around C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's fictional detective, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" involves Dupin's investigation of two women's murders. Establishing many of the tropes that would later become common to detective fiction, the story begins with an explanation of Dupin's theory of ratiocination, a concept that greatly influenced the creation of detective fiction itself and other great detectives like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.

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Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Detective Fiction Mystery Traditional Detectives Crime Murder Short Story
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