![]() ![]() THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could,īut when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. The story is off & running from the first paragraph: See the forerunner of everyone from Sherlock Holmes to Nero Wolfe. Most important, theĬrime is solved by the rigorous application of reason. However, reading aboutĪ particularly brutal murder in Rue Morgue, he is stirred into action &Īll of the elements that have become so familiar to us are present here Ī locked room, a bizarre killing, a brilliant but eccentric detective,Īn incredulous sidekick, bumbling police, etc. Reduced to poverty and has shrunken into indolence. With a great intellect & comes of an illustrious family, but has been With this tale, Poe created the detective story. Short stories, you can get everything in a one volume addition like this One of the beauties of Poe is that, since his work was all poetry & ![]() ![]() Have passed into the iconography of our culture-recall the Tell Tale HeartĮpisode of Cheers, with Diane following Carla around going, boom-boom, Wrote excellent poetry & many of the images from his horror stories In fact, he virtually created the modern mystery tale, Writers perhaps underrated because he's too easily pigeon-holed as a drug-addled Edgar Allan Poe is certainly one of America's greatest and most underrated ![]()
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