This is one of Poe's stories that influenced the development of the modern detective story.

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Who, for instance, would want a detective story without a single dialogue in it?

比如，谁会喜欢一部没有对话的,侦探小说呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

His fictional detective C.August Dupin first appeared in his story "The Murders In the Rue Morgue" in eighteen forty-one.

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