Risultati per "Edgar Allan Poe" in Detective dilettante

Un misterioso e brutale omicidio di una giovane ragazza sconvolge Parigi, una terribile epidemia si espande a macchia d’olio portando morte...

La vendetta di un amico, ferito da un insulto, scatena una serie di eventi senza controllo. Un massacro di inaudita violenza fa brancolare nel buio la polizia...

Una lettera di fondamentale importanza cade nella mani sbagliate e, nonostante i mille sforzi della polizia, non c’è modo di recuperarla...

A young woman is found dead in the Seine. The newspapers are filled with theories, contradictions, and sensational claims. C. Auguste Dupin believes the truth is hidden among them. In this sequel to *The Murders in the Rue Morgue*, Edgar Allan Poe’s brilliant detective turns his powers of...

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human.

Two women are dead inside a room locked from within. There is no clear escape route, no believable suspect—and no agreement about the strange voice heard at the scene. When news of the brutal Rue Morgue murders grips Paris, the police are overwhelmed by a crime that appears to defy reason...