detective fiction · 1841
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
novella by Edgar Allan Poe
- 1841
- detective fiction
- locked room mystery
Summary
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by the American writer and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".
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