The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Name: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Edgar allan Poe
ISBN: 9781669653424

Author: Edgar allan Poe

Narrator: Tasha Nerys

Unabridged: 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Clark Vo Services

Published: 10/15/2022

Categories: Children's Fiction, Animal Stories, Children's Graphic Novels

Synopsis

A short story by Edgar Allan PoeC. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human!The story has been made into several films, most notably the 1932 film starring Ela Lugosi and the 1986 television film starring George C. Scott, Rebecca de Mornay and Val Kilmer.

About Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, and literary critic who is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre and with contributing to the emerging science fiction genre. He began his literary career with the anonymous publication of a collection of his poems entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems. He then turned to writing prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming well known for his particular style of literary criticism. He served for a time on the staff of the New York Mirror, in which his poem "The Raven" was published. Poe's other well-known works include his stories "The Purloined Letter," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Mystery of Marie Roget."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on December 03, 2024

In these first five stories about Edgar Allan Poe's detective Auguste Dupin, he establishes many of the traditions or motifs we know from classic detective fiction. The eccentric but brilliant detective who solves the mystery merely by analysing the facts from his armchair, the mystery of how a murd......more

Goodreads review by Mohammed on November 03, 2017

In The Beginning there was..في البدء كان Dupin دوبين الكثير يظن أن شيرلوك الذي ابتدعه ارثر كونان دويل هو أول مخبر، ربما متأثرا بشئ من سابقه المحقق في رواية دوستويفيسكي الأشهر"الجريمة والعقاب"..ولا يدري أن كلا المؤلفان اعترفا صراحة بالإلهام من شخصية بو السابقة لكل هذا سي أوجست دوبين ففي 1841 قبل شيرلوك ه......more

Goodreads review by James on July 20, 2017

Book Review Edgar Allan Poe was a brilliant author, who died too early; I can only imagine what his macabre mind would have dreamed had he not perished. In The Murders in the Rue Morgue, a short story first published in 1841, Poe introduces a detective character, C. Auguste Dupin, who wil......more

Goodreads review by Peter on July 30, 2019

I think this is one of the most brilliant detective stories ever written. Two ladies (mother and daughter L' Espanaye) are murdered in a house in Rue Morgue (Paris). But who did it? French Police arrests a suspect but did he really commit those heinous crimes? An independent gentleman named Dupin st......more

Goodreads review by Francesc on March 13, 2022

He disfrutado mucho de esta relectura de este clásico. Según dicen los expertos, es el primer relato detectivesco. Un relato genial que tiene continuación en "El misterio de Marie Roget". ----------------- I really enjoyed this re-reading of this classic. According to the experts, it is the first dete......more