The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407021102
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
The best detective in fiction...Dupin is unrivalled
Arthur Conan Doyle
Poe's blackly ingenious tale of brutal murder in 19th-century Paris establishes C. Auguste Dupin, a man of 'peculiar analytic ability', as the model for pretty much every intellectual detective to come
The Ultimate Reading List, Sunday Telegraph
For their supernatural grotesquerie and graveyard doom,[Poe's stories] foreshadow Stephen King and the "southern gothic" of Truman Capote... his work continues to enthral. His greatest tales radiate a dark humour and mockery that strike an oddly modern note.
Sunday Times
If genius is an exceptional capacity for imaginative creation, Poe had it in spades. With Dupin in The Murders In The Rue Morgue, he created the first detective story before the word 'detective' existed
Daily Mail
The modern horror novel owes an enormous debt to Poe, and the novel of psychological horror owes him almost everything
Spectator
Thanks to Poe, we now have a Protector yet more powerful, a figure we can take to our hearts, or into our subconsciousnesses: the Great Detective.
The Times
If you love thrillers, you have to read these stories.
Alice Fisher, Observer
Famed for his macabre tales of Gothic suspense, Poe actually invented the detective fiction genre in 1841 with the creation of his brilliant Partisan investigator Auguste Dupin.
Val Hennessy, Daily Mail