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In one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most brilliant detective tales, C. Auguste Dupin faces a crime that is as much about intellect as it is about cunning. When a highly sensitive letter is stolen from the royal apartments by a shrewd and unscrupulous minister, the police search tirelessly—yet fail to find it. Called upon for help, Dupin applies his unparalleled powers of observation and deduction, proving that the best hiding place may be in plain sight.

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, editor and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.

This is a story from the Murders in the Rue Morgue (The Dupin Stories) collection. Auguste Dupin, investigator extraordinaire, was the remarkable creation of Edgar Allan Poe. Written in the 1840s, Poe presented the acutely observant, shrewd but idiosyncratic character who, with his chronicler, provided the inspiration for the more famous Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Actor David Ian Davies' telling of Poe's Gothic horror tale "The Tell-Tale Heart" captures this classic narrative of the unnamed murderer in all its exquisite vileness, its self-effacing insanity that poses rationality where none exists.

A fourth floor room, a door locked with the key inside, no way in, no way out. Edgar Allan Poe is the true grandfather of the murder mystery. Decades before Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, Poe gave us C. Auguste Dupin, a man able to solve mysteries through observation and deduction.

Imagine Sherlock Holmes solving cases where the clues include a mysterious cask of Amontillado – the haunting cries of a raven – an unnerving asylum – a man’s uncanny doppelganger!

Gerard Lenoir ist einer der angesagtesten Schneider von Paris. Obwohl es Lenoir selbst ist, der sich an Dupin und Poe wendet, um den Fall aufzuklären, bleibt bei den beiden ein Rest Misstrauen, ob der Schneider wirklich in allen Belangen die Wahrheit gesagt hat. Und in der Tat verstrickt sich ihr Auftraggeber immer weiter in Widersprüche, während der Mörder weiter sein Unwesen treibt.

ב-1841 פורסם לראשונה "הרציחות מרחוב מורג" ואתו נולד הסיפור הבלשי. אדגר אלן פו, גאון פרוזה, סופר חודר נפש ותודעה, הוליד את הבלש אוגוסט דופאן והמציא ז'אנר ספרותי חדש...

הבור והמטוטלת, סיפור-הסיוט שהיה למקור-השראה בלתי-פוסק לעשרות סיפורי-בלהה וסרטי-אימים, הוא אחד מארבעה סיפורים שהקובץ מכיל. מלבדו נמצאים כאן 'כת', 'שנמצא בבקבוק'...

From the very beginning of its two-decade run on radio, Suspense was tops in thriller entertainment! Its first year on the air brought together stories from such outstanding masters of the genre as John Dickson Carr, Dashiell Hammett, and Edgar Allan Poe! Tune in to 20 tense classics from Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills - starring Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Susan Hayward, Richard Dix, Lou Merrill, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Readick, Alice Frost, and more.

This Audiobook contains the following works: "The Builder" [Frank L. Packard], "The Man Who Didn't Count" [Frank L. Packard], "Red Petals" [Frederick Merrick White], "The Other Man's Story" [Frederick Merrick White], "The Shebeeners" [Frederick Merrick White], "The Waterwitch" [Frederick Merrick White], "The Brand of the Wild" [G.B Lancaster], "A Fair Smuggler" [George Newnes], "A Castaway of the South" [Gilbert Parker], "As Deep As the Sea" [Gilbert Parker], "The Gift of the Simple King" [Gilbert Parker], "The Treasure of Sacramento" [Nick Guy Boothby].

The Detective Novels Collection is a stunning collection of 8 classic detective novels and stories, read by three award-winning narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest crime writers in history, including Arthur Conan Doyle; AA Milne; Edgar Allan Poe; Josephine Tey; and Freeman Crofts Wills.

The Definitive Detective Collection brings together the finest deductive minds in fiction. Join Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin as he invents the detective genre in the mid-1800s, and follow the logical clues to the most famous detective ever committed to paper, Sherlock Holmes, in Victorian London. Along the way you'll also meet Josephine Tey's formiddable Inspector Alan Grant, as-well as G. K. Chesterton's beloved Father Brown, as they solve crimes in wondorously inventive and ingenious ways.

In this volume we explore that difficult situation where lack of choice is your only choice. We feel trapped either by the body or by the mind. Our classic authors put their characters in positions that we can all relate too, and then devise fiendish and uncomfortable ways to deepen the malaise or perhaps offer some sort of escape, however temporary.

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe is a dark and unforgettable tale of revenge, pride, and psychological horror—one of the most chilling short stories in the history of American literature.

Phil Chenevert narrates this classic Edgar Allan Poe tale of mystery and suspense.

In einer düsteren Gasse im Zentrum von Paris geht die Angst unter den Bewohnern um. Seit einigen Wochen entsteht dort aus dem Nichts eine unheimliche Nebelwand. Wer sich nach draußen wagt, vernimmt schaurige Laute, sichtet die Schatten schrecklicher Kreaturen im Dunst, die einem verfolgen und verschleppen, wenn man nicht rechtzeitig zurück ins Haus flieht. Florence, die besorgte Tochter der alten Sylvie, die in der "Nebelgasse" lebt, beauftragt Dupin und Poe das Rätsel des Spuks zu lösen. Bei ihren Untersuchungen kommen sie den unheimlichen Erscheinungen näher, als ihnen lieb ist.

C'EST PARCE QU'ILS PENSENT AUTREMENT QU'IL RESOLVENT L'INSOLUBLE... Ce recueil présente une sélection de brillantes enquêtes menées par de singuliers détectives.

Journey into the mind of literatures first detective, C. Auguste Dupin, in Edgar Allan Poes groundbreaking 1841 short story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Delve into this captivating tale of ratiocination, considered the pioneer of the detective genre and the originator of the locked room mystery trope. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Whether as a crime of passion with high emotions or a cold dispassionate plot to take life in order to gain in some way, the act strikes us all as somehow inhuman. Beneath us as civilised beings. But however we cloak our animal instincts the need to remove a human being and gain relief from abuse or gain from money, the term is just the same – MURDER. Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could.