The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories arrives as the first volume in a pocket-sized series from Macmillan Collector's Library, bringing together three works by Edgar Allan Poe. Each tale exemplifies the American author’s mastery of mystery, gothic tension, and early detective fiction.

In "The Oblong Box," a sea voyage turns eerie when a passenger becomes obsessed with a peculiar piece of cargo. "The Cask of Amontillado" follows a man lured into the catacombs under a false promise of rare wine, where revenge awaits. The title story stands as a landmark of the traditional detective genre. Parisian investigator Auguste Dupin is called to solve the savage, inexplicable slaying of two women in a fourth-floor apartment on the Rue Morgue, a case that pushes logical deduction to its chilling limits. Poe’s dark imagination and narrative precision resonate throughout this compact collection.