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The Detective Story & Rue Morgue

On this day in 1841, Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue first appeared. The story has been called the first detective story. Of course, some have called Oedipus Rex the earliest form of the detective story. Read more about Edgar Allan Poe:

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