...tales, and well illustrates his manner and his mode of arresting and fixing the attention of the reader. The " Murders in the Rue Morgue," " The Mystery of Marie Roget," and the " Purloined Letter," are all illustrations of forcible analysis, applied to the disentangling of complicated and confused...

...sufficient, while his coadjutors were busy in the pit; perhaps a dozen — who shall tell ? " In " The Murders in the Rue Morgue," " The Mystery of Marie Roget," and " The Purloined Letter," the same striking characteristics are exhibited. The peculiar character of that extraordinary analytical...

...a wonderful "send off." The poem floated over the Atlantic — as the three Parisian romances of " The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and 214 EDGAR ALLAN POE. " The Purloined Letter ' ' had done — and called forth the enthusiastic admiration...

...exhibit the same peculiarities. Their names suggest their gloomy and sometimes fearful subjects : " The Murders in the Rue Morgue," " The Mystery of Marie Roget," and " The Purloined Letter," which were predecessors of the modern detective story ; " The Gold Bug " and " Hans Pfaal," extravagant...

...pitch of precision and effectiveness, lies one of the apparent anomalies of Poe's genius and art. In The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The Purloined Letter, Poe seems sanity incarnate, pure mental energy untouched by moods or passions, weaving and unweaving...

...of precision and effectiveness, lies one of the apparent anomalies of Foe's genius and art. In Tlie Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The Purloined Letter, Poe seems sanity incarnate, pure mental energy untouched by moods or passions, weaving and unweaving...

...such stories, Jules Verne, for instance, in his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, invert this order. The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The Purloined Letter are all what we should call "detective stories," and are the forerunners of many stories of their kind...

...a wonderful "send off." The poem floated over the Atlantic — - as the three Parisian romances of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and "The Purloined Letter" had done — and called forth the enthusiastic admiration of Miss Barrett and Robert Browning. One...

...case of the Broadway Journal tales. However, in some instances this revision was considerable, as in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and " The Fall of the House of Usher." The extent of revision in " The Gold Bug " and " The Black Cat " cannot...

...a wonderful "send off." The poem floated over the Atlantic — as the three Parisian romances of " The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and "The Purloined Letter" had done — and called forth the enthusiastic admiration of Miss Barrett and Robert Browning. One...