Author:  Edgar Allan Poe
Online reading time: 3 hr.
Published:  1843
Original language:  English
Type:  Story , Novel
Literary Genre: Detective, Psychological Romance

Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe wrote three mesmerizing stories about a young French oddball Auguste Dupin in the genre of the fantastic detective. These stories, brought Poe fame. Indeed, the author’s short mysteries have inspired other authors to create countless literary sleuths, including Sherlock Holmes. So rightfully, The Murders in the Rue Morgue can be called the first detective story in the history of world literature.

In the psychological detective The Mystery of Marie Roget, detective Dupin and his assistant take on the task of solving the murder of a beautiful young grisette working in a perfume store, whose body is found floating in the Seine …