The Detective Stories Of Edgar Allan Poe

<b>“To speak of the detective story is to speak of Edgar Allan Poe, who invented the genre.”</b> — Jorge Luis Borges <br><br> Before Sherlock Holmes there was C. Auguste Dupin, the brilliant Parisian detective whose unique powers of observation and deduction allowed him to solve the most mysterious of crimes. <i>The Detective Stories of Edgar Allan Poe</i> brings together all three stories featuring Dupin: <i>The Murders in the Rue Morgue</i>, <i>The Mystery of Marie Rogêt</i>, and <i>The Purloined Letter</i>. In these pages lie the very origins of the detective story, a genre Poe not only invented but mastered. As Arthur Conan Doyle acknowledged, Poe “was father of the detective tale, and covered its limits so completely I fail to see how his followers can find ground to call their own.”