The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The best detective in fiction…Dupin is unrivalled – Arthur Conan DoylePoe’s blackly ingenious tale of brutal murder in 19th-century Paris establishes C. Auguste Dupin, a man of ‘peculiar analytic ability’, as the model for pretty much every intellectual detective to come – The Ultimate Reading List * Sunday Telegraph *For their supernatural grotesquerie and graveyard doom,[Poe’s stories] foreshadow Stephen King and the “southern gothic” of Truman Capote… his work continues to enthral. His greatest tales radiate a dark humour and mockery that strike an oddly modern note. * Sunday Times *If genius is an exceptional capacity for imaginative creation, Poe had it in spades. With Dupin in The Murders In The Rue Morgue, he created the first detective story before the word ‘detective’ existed * Daily Mail *The modern horror novel owes an enormous debt to Poe, and the novel of psychological horror owes him almost everything * Spectator *Thanks to Poe, we now have a Protector yet more powerful, a figure we can take to our hearts, or into our subconsciousnesses: the Great Detective. * The Times *If you love thrillers, you have to read these stories. – Alice Fisher * Observer *Famed for his macabre tales of Gothic suspense, Poe actually invented the detective fiction genre in 1841 with the creation of his brilliant Partisan investigator Auguste Dupin. – Val Hennessy * Daily Mail *

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty.

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