Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" launched the detective story in 1841. The genre began as a highbrow form of entertainment, a puzzle to be solved b

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Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.

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