Edgar Allan Poe, Detective Fiction, and the Parkman Murder, American Experience, Official Site

The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day was the Parkman murder.

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Library of the Best American Literature, by Various—A Project Gutenberg eBook

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Library of the Best American Literature, by Various—A Project Gutenberg eBook

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