The Murders in the Rue Morgue & Other Tales

A new, beautifully laid-out, easy-to-read edition of Edgar Allan Poe's C. August Dupin trilogy -- the birth of detective fiction as a genre. This edition includes the following stories: The Murders In the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Rogêt The Purloined Letter<br/>Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is regarded as a central figure of American literature, as one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story and the inventor of detective fiction and science fiction as respective genres.