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  • Published: 2 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241252321
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $7.99

A Modern Detective




46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946

He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.

  • Published: 2 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241252321
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $7.99

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty.

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