Detective short stories
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This detective short story from E. A. Poe has been recognized as the first modern detective story. Poe referred to it as one of his “tales of ratiocination”. Two murders happened that time in Paris and…
This detective short story is about Mr. George Blake. It is a kind, distinguished gentleman, with a very unusual hobby – he kills people. Top of the morning to you. I hope whoever is reading…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective short story The Crooked Man starts off with a crime committed within a locked room. Colonel James Barkley is found dead in his home, and his wife, Nancy, is the prime…
This detective short story was adapted from Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles (1916). It is based on a murder story Susan Glaspell covered as a reporter. When Martha Hale opened the storm-door and got a cut…
This shot story shows Poe’s contribution to the genre of Dark Romanticism. Poe basically created the template for the detective story genre, emulated by the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. At Paris, just after…