Les trois enquêtes du chevalier Dupin

Résumé

s/t: Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue - Le mystère de Marie Roget - La lettre volée Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, these tales brought Poe fame and fortune to live on. Years later, Dorothy Sayers would describe "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as "almost a complete manual of detective theory and practice.