(originally published December 1840 in Graham’s Magazine)
Possibly the first-ever of the detective genre, this tale
introduces the first-ever fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, who would
later inspire both the characters of Sherlock Holmes and of Hercule Poirot. In
the story, Dupin investigates and solves the dual-murder of a mother and her
daughter.
Summary written by Taylor Colegrove, May 2011. Title links to the full text of the story.
The crime-fiction read-along on the Soho Press blog discussed this tale earlier in the year, including some interesting background about the man Dupin is based on.
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