Murders in the Rue Morgue
- Length
- 1 h 34 min
- Chapters
- 3
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Detective Fiction
- First published
- 1841
The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841. Poe referred to it as a "tale of ratiocination" featuring the brilliant deductions of C. Auguste Dupin; it is today regarded as one of the first detective stories and is almost certainly the first locked room mystery. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Chapters
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