The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales

Resumen del libro

'... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...' The violent murder of a mother and daughter in Paris leaves the police baffled - but the reclusive Dupin, an amateur detective, decides to investigate simply in his desire for truth and to prove a falsely imprisoned man innocent. Through his ground-breaking investigation, Dupin will reveal the incredible truth of this shocking misdeed. Poe's 1842 story was written as a study of ingenuity against murder, or the power of the brain against brute force. In his masterful uncovering of the crime and the criminal, Dupin himself is the forerunner of all great fictional detectives.

Biografía del autor

Nació en Boston en 1809. Quedó huérfano a los tres años. La tradición sureña, con sus relatos de aparecidos, cementerios y cadáveres, ofreció un vasto repertorio sobrenatural a este maestro del cuento breve, que en 1814 inauguró el género policial con Los crímenes de la calle Morgue. De Poe, Libros del Zorro Rojo ha publicado también El gato negro y otros relatos de terror y Edgar Allan Poe, Cuentos y poemas.