Murders in the Rue Morgue | Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. Since this story is said to be the first detective story, and the one from which all subsequent detective stories derive, discuss some of the conventions, techniques, and devices introduced here that appear in later detective stories.
2. Poe believes that all good stories are like detective stories, in which the reader serves as a kind of detective, determining the clues and solving the mystery. Compare the action of a reader of a story with a detective as Poe defines him.
3. In another Poe detective story "The Purloined Letter," Dupin says that a successful criminal, as well as a...
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