Crime Classics: The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Paperback)

from jonfaith

'That is another of your odd notions,' said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling everything 'odd' that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of 'oddities.'As noted this was life preserver book, bought for loose change and kept in my truck for just such an occas...

from PhilSyphe

Read this as part of my BA in English. With Poe's reputation, I felt disappointed with this, though parts did impress me. The concept is clever, but too much rambling prose prevented me from really liking this.

from sayakaa

it was sad story. i did not like the ending.

from marsap

A collection of Poe's detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin. These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story. The most famous is the Murder on the Rue Morgue-basically a locked roomed murder mystery. Dupin can extrapolate specific ...

from DoskoiPanda

Poe's work itself is 5 stars, no question. But this edition would benefit from some footnotes/annotations for some of the more obscure things and the French phrases, rather than the additional material and the "reader's circle" questions/discussions, particularly for someone not familiar with the...