The First Detective

by Edgar Allan Poe

First published 2013

A series of daring crimes. An eccentric detective on the case. And a chilling glimpse into the darkest corners of the human psyche. In Poe's iconic tales, logic and deduction collide with the macabre and the unexplained. From the brutal murder in a Paris apartment to the theft of a crucial government document, these mysteries push the boundaries of reason - and the reader's nerves.

Genres: short-stories, 20th-century, mystery, crime, detective, 19th-century

Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking

Tropes: detective, unreliable-narrator

Setting: Paris

130 pages · Paperback

Content warnings: murder, violence

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