What are the names of MYSTERY books Edgar Allan Poe wrote?
March 62010
What Mystery book did he write? I wanna read some!
And what detectives names did he have?
I am unaware that Poe had written any mysteries. I have the Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe at home. I’ll have to look through it. I havne’t read the whole thing but I have read a lot of it…
March 6th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
I am unaware that Poe had written any mysteries. I have the Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe at home. I’ll have to look through it. I havne’t read the whole thing but I have read a lot of it…
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March 6th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
He didn’t really write whole mystery books, per se, but he did write short stories like ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ and ‘The Purloined Letter’. His detective was Auguste Dupin.
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March 6th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Poe never wrote a mystery novel. That was left to later authors.
He wrote a series of short stories which set up most of the known types and formulas of the mystery stories.
1) Murders in the Rue Morgue, his first short story, introduces Dupin, his detective. It’s a locked room mystery.
2) The Purloined Letter, in which an object is hidden and must be found.
3) The Mystery of Marie Roget, a story where Poe used a real-life murder mystery as his jumping off point.
Two other stories are often called part of Poe’s mystery tradition.
4) The Gold Bug
5) Thou Art the Man
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March 6th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
I agree with Jeffery Marks answer and you can read a few of the stories here:
Murders in the Rue Morgue:
http://poestories.com/text.php?file=murders
The Purloined Letter:
http://poestories.com/text.php?file=purloined
The Gold Bug:
http://poestories.com/text.php?file=goldbug
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