Author:  Edgar Allan Poe
Online reading time: 2 hours
Published:  1841
Original language:  English
Type:  Story , Novel
Literary Genre: Detective, Adventure Novel

The Murders in the Rue Morgue is the first detective work in the history of literature. In it, a new hero detective Auguste Dupin, an eccentric intellectual with unusual analytical skills, who investigates mysterious crimes, entered the scene. Horror, overwhelming feelings, mysterious events, ghosts of the otherworld – in Edgar Poe’s gothic stories, do not hope for a happy ending.