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Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue" is published - April 20th, 1841

Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue" is published - April 20th, 1841

This Day in History Class

April 20, 20228m 24s

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On this day in 1841, Edgar Allan Poe published “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” a tale widely considered to be the first modern detective story. 

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