(B) Better Than Most
Seminal tale of ratiocination, as C. Auguste Dupin solves the mystery of an inhumanly horrible double-homicide in Paris. For Poe, the reasoning is the thing, with dramatic effect largely sacrificed in its favor. Still, an unusual crime, one which Clive Barker would, almost a century and a half later, pay tribute to in his story, “New Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Poe himself wrote a sequel the following year, “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt.”
Seminal tale of ratiocination, as C. Auguste Dupin solves the mystery of an inhumanly horrible double-homicide in Paris. For Poe, the reasoning is the thing, with dramatic effect largely sacrificed in its favor. Still, an unusual crime, one which Clive Barker would, almost a century and a half later, pay tribute to in his story, “New Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Poe himself wrote a sequel the following year, “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt.”