Cuentos policiales

How much does world literature owe to the figure and genius of Edgar Allan Poe? Born in Boston, United States, on January 19, 1809, Poe was a pioneer of the fantasy genre, an inescapable reference point in horror literature, and kicked off one of the richest and most successful literary traditions: the detective story. His story "The Murders of the Morgue Street", published in 1841, began a literary genre that the best writers of our time knew how to cultivate. This book collects that and other police texts by the author, the first teacher in the art of solving -through an exercise of deduction, reason and intelligence- the enigmas created by the wildest side of human nature.