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Los crímenes de la Rue Morgue y otros cuentos

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Un misterio en principio irresoluble pone en jaque tanto a los protagonistas de este relato como al lector.

En una de las más populares calles de París, Madamme y Mademoiselle L'Espanaye son halladas brutalmente mutiladas. Sin ninguna pista que seguir, la policía se encuentra en un callejón sin salida. Solo la ayuda del detective Auguste Dupin conseguirá esclarecer uno de los más originales e inteligentes misterios planteados por el gran Edgar Allan Poe.

Para muchos, Los crímenes de la rue Morge y su protagonista son el principal modelo de Arthur Conan Doyle para crear, años más tarde, a su emblemático personaje Sherlock Holmes.

208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published January 22, 2026

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Edgar Allan Poe

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The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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Profile Image for A. Felipe Martínez.
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April 16, 2026
Clásico de clásicos. Edgar Allan Poe no defrauda.

*Los crímenes de la rue Morgue: conocemos a C. Auguste Dupin y su proceso inductivo para resolver la atroz muerte de madame y mademoiselle L'Espanaye y dar con un sospechoso totalmente inesperado.

*El misterio de Marie Rogêt: basado de un caso real en Nueva York, el ahora conocido C. Auguste Dupin vuelve a deslumbrarnos con su método inductivo y a partir de las solas lecturas de los periódicos que cubrieron la muerte de la "hermosa cigarrera" puede dar no solo la solución del crimen en la ficción sino en la vida real.

*El escarabajo de oro: la búsqueda de un tesoro oculto por un pirata casi enloquece a uno de los protagonistas tras resolver un ingenioso criptograma y el hallazgo de un escarabajo dorado.

*La carta robada: tercera y última aparición de C. Auguste Dupin donde este se ve involucrado directamente en la búsqueda y ubicación de una carta perteneciente a las más altas esferas usando solamente su mente pragmática. De este relato saqué una gran conclusión que me ha enseñado algo en la vida y es que a veces no hay nada más engañoso que un hecho evidente.
(¿Será que Arthur Conan Doyle se inspiró en este relato para "Un escándalo en Bohemia" de Las Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes?)

*¡Tú has sido!: un relato cómico y policial donde vemos por primera vez el uso de métodos forenses y criminalísticos como la balística.
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July 28, 2026
Los crímenes de La Rue Morgue: 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

El mistero de Marie Rogêt: 2 ⭐️⭐️

El escarabajo de oro: 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

La carta robada: 4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tú has sido: 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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