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1841 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE Edgar Allan Poe
pinkmonkey.comgenre-founding detective stories. Poe, whose cloudy personal life is a virtual legend, considered himself primarily a poet. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) - The police are unable to solve the murders of a mother and her daughter. Considered the first detective story, this work made Poe the only American to ever invent a form of literature.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Matthew Pearl
www.matthewpearl.comMurders in the Rue Morgue” started with this complicated paragraph related to phrenology, the nineteenth-century discipline that corre-lated personality traits with the shape of the skull: It is not improbable that a few farther steps in phrenological science will
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - United States Department ...
americanenglish.state.govor, if he did, how you can know that.” “I will explain. Listen closely now: “Let us follow your thoughts from the fruit-seller to the play-ac-tor, Chantilly. Those thoughts must have gone like this: from the fruit-seller to the cobblestones, from the cobblestones to stereotomy, and from stereotomy to Epicurus, to Orion, and then to Chantilly.