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The Mystery of Marie Rogêt and Other Tales: Fully annotated with extra material

By (author) Edgar Allan Poe

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Unique collection of short stories Presented as â€œA Sequel to â€˜The Murders in the Rue Morgueâ€™â€, â€˜The Mystery of Marie RogÃªtâ€™ was inspired by the murder of a well-known New York beauty, whose body was found in the Hudson River on 28th July 1841. Just like its predecessor, this story â€“ which also features C. Auguste Dupin, the French detective who solved the Rue Morgue case â€“ is one of the earliest examples of the real-crime murder mystery, and is justly regarded as one of the highest points of the entire genre. Alongside â€˜Marie RogÃªtâ€™, this volume, which completes Almaâ€™s edition of Edgar Allan Poeâ€™s fiction works, includes a wide variety of tales, spanning from his very early beginnings as a writer, with light-hearted skits such as â€˜The Duc de lâ€™Omeletteâ€™ and â€˜Bon-Bonâ€™, to rollicking adventure stories, fables, dialogues between spirits and parodies such as â€˜Mellonta Tautaâ€™ and â€˜X-ing a Paragrabâ€™, which he penned only a few months before his premature death in 1849. Taken together, they consolidate Poeâ€™s reputation as one of the greatest and most eclectic storytellers of all time.