Includes bibliographical references (pages [119]-139) and index.
Contents
Formal consideration of the Dupin tales -- "The murders in the Rue Morgue" and The Philadelphia Saturday News -- "The Mystery of Marie Rogét" and "various newspaper files" -- "The purloined letter" and Death-bed confessions -- Autobiographical considerations of the Dupin tales.
Summary
Using the methods of Edgar Allan Poe's sleuth C. Auguste Dupin, Kopley here offers surprising discoveries about Poe's detective tales and traces the origins of the modern detective tale genre.