".. Marie Roget" is often subtitled "A Sequel to The Murders in the Rue Morgue." It is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842 and is the first fictional murder mystery based on the details of a real crime. It appeared in "Snowden's Ladies' Companion" in three installments, November and December 1842, and February 1843. The unfortunate young woman in the story was a perfume shop assistant in Paris; one Sunday she failed to return after a visit to her aunt elsewhere in the city. The Paris police department consult with C. Auguste Dupin on the tragic events. The story was based on the facts outlined in many New York City newspapers of a real murder which had occurred in the American city a year earlier. Librarian's note: this entry is for the story "The Mystery of Marie Roget." It is the second of three in the author's Dupin series. Collections of the series, and other stories by the author, are located elsewhere on Goodreads. Each of the three stories can be found by searching Goodreads for "a C. Auguste Dupin Short Story."

"The Purloined Letter" is a story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt". These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story. The narrator is discussing with the famous Parisian amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin some of his most celebrated cases when they are joined by the Prefect of the Police, a man known as G—. The Prefect has a case he would like to discuss with Dupin. A letter has been stolen from the boudoir of an unnamed woman by the unscrupulous Minister D—. It is said to contain compromising information. D—was in the room, saw the letter, and switched it for a letter of no importance. He has been blackmailing his victim.

Sono i maggiori critici militanti e studiosi italiani a raccontare ogni opera in 10 parole chiave: per penetrare fino al cuore dei capolavori di tutti i tempi. Edizioni integrali, testi greci e latini a fronte, traduzioni eleganti, essenziali note a piè di pagina. In più, con le tavole sinottiche, è facile collocare vita e opere degli autori nel contesto storico, letterario e artistico. Sono qui riunite due famose indagini dell'investigatore C. Auguste Dupin: ''I delitti della Rue Morgue'', il racconto antesignano di ogni detective story, e il suo 'seguito', ''Il mistero di Marie Rogêt''... I fan delle avventure di Sherlock Holmes e del compare Watson, legati da un'amicizia che ha a volte i tratti ambigui di un sodalizio amoroso, tale e quale nei due protagonisti di questi due testi di Poe, saranno sicuramente ricompensati da Dupin e vi ritroveranno l'arguzia dello Sherlock abile a risolvere enigmi, ma anche l'ironia involontaria e lunatica, l'eccentricità solitaria che emerge fin dalle prime pagine...