The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe [U.K MINIATURE PAPERBACK] 1995 • Penguin Classics

THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE by EDGAR ALLEN POE [C. Auguste Dupin #1]

MINIATURE U.K. PAPERBACK [1995] PENGUIN 60s CLASSICS

Published in a line of 60p priced U.K. miniature sized paperbacks to commemorate Penguin's 60th anniversary.

Miniature paperback in excellent condition. [Quarter for scale]

Light shelf / rub wear to cover.  Reads like new. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

A gruesome crime and the birth of a super-sleuth

'A murder so mysterious, and so perplexing in all its particulars, was never before committed in Paris,' say the local papers when two women are found brutally murdered - one strangled and stuffed up a chimney and the other with her throat slit - in their home on the Rue Morgue. It is up to Monsieur Dupin, fledgeling detective, to crack the case, with Poe inventing the detective story as we know it along the way. Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings is published in Penguin Classics.