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A Modern Detective

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241252321

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 161mm x 10mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 99g

  • RRP: £2.00

A Modern Detective

He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241252321

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 161mm x 10mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 99g

  • RRP: £2.00

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About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty.

Edgar Allan Poe

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