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Mystery Subgenres

With the publication, in 1841, of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Edgar Allan Poe created elements of detection and the modern murder mystery genre.  His detective, Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, is said to be based on the very real François Eugène Vidocq, a criminal who eventually became the head of the Sûreté.  An autobiography… Read More ›