Read by: Walter Zimmerman, John Chatty
Language: English
Length: 26 minutes
Publisher: Jimcin Recordings
Release date: 2008-12-28
These stories are considered important forerunners of the modern detective story. The method Poe's detective, Dupin, uses to solve the crime was quite innovative. He tried to identify with the criminal and to "think like he would." In May of 1844 Poe wrote to James Russell Lowell that he considered it "perhaps the best of my tales of ratiocination"