Garrison Keillor's,
The Writer's Almanac, reports that April 20
th is the day that detective fiction was born. On this day in 1841, Edgar Allen Poe first published
The Murders in the Rue Morgue. This wasn't the first mystery story; it was the first story where someone pieced together clues and made deductions using scientific reasoning. In searching for an image of Poe to use in this post I ran across a bookseller's copy of
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories with such a cool cover that I just had to post it. It's so colorful. I just wish I had the greenbacks to purchase it myself. Maybe it's just right for YOUR collection? (
image property of E&C Books,Ltd.)
Garrison Keillor's, The Writer's Almanac, reports that April 20th is the day that detective fiction was born. On this day in 1841, Edgar Allen Poe first published The Murders in the Rue Morgue. This wasn't the first mystery story; it was the first story where someone pieced together clues and made deductions using scientific reasoning. In searching for an image of Poe to use in this post I ran across a bookseller's copy of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories with such a cool cover that I just had to post it. It's so colorful. I just wish I had the greenbacks to purchase it myself. Maybe it's just right for YOUR collection? (image property of E&C Books,Ltd.)
