モルグ街の殺人事件

by Edgar Allan Poe

ある日、パリのモルグ街で猟奇殺人事件が起きた――。
犠牲者の母娘は残酷きわまる殺され方をされており、しかも事件現場は密室だった。密室から聞こえていた犯人と思われる人物の声を複数の者が聞いていたが、証言者はこぞって自分の母国語以外の言語を喋っていたと言う。この殺人事件の解明に探偵C・オーギュスト・デュパンが挑むこととなる。
エドガー・アラン・ポーによる本作は、推理小説というジャンルを築く作品であり、密室殺人を扱った最初の作品とも言われています。後世の作家たちにも多大な影響を与えた作品であることは間違いありません。時代を超えて愛される名作を是非、味わいましょう。

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モルグ街の殺人事件

52 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2012

About the author

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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Reviews

[Zofia Domagalska · Rating 3 out of 5]

Historie zawarte w tym zbiorze są bardzo odmienne, więc jego całościowa ocena jest trudna. Pierwsza i ostatnia historia to klastyczny Poe darzący nas makabrycznymi opisami i intrygującą fabułą. Szczególnie należy docenić historyczną wartość "Zabójstwa przy Rue Morgue", dzieła które stanowi pierwszą powieść detektywistyczną pisaną w schemacie, który następnie był powielany przez Agathę Christie czy Conan Doyle'a. Natomiast środkowa powieść pt. "Skradziony list" była rozczarowująca, gdyż nie zawierała wątku zbrodni i opierała się wyłącznie na dochodzeniu detektywistycznym.

[petite fille amoureuse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Не очаквах извършителят на убийството да е маймуна. Това ме хвана изключително неподготвена 🦧

[patrcyaj · Rating 3 out of 5]

„Czarny kot” got me GAGGED

[NEKA · Rating 3 out of 5]

მეტ სიმძაფრეს ველოდი 😢

[Coff(in)ee Lover · Rating 3 out of 5]

მდაჰ.

[Mariam · Rating 4 out of 5]

ჩემი პირველი დეტექტივი იყო და, მართალია, დიდად არ აღვფრთოვანებულვარ, მაგრამ მაინც განსაკუთრებული ადგილი უჭირავს.

[Adam · Rating 3 out of 5]

zabójstwo przy rue morgue 7/10
skradziony list 6/10
czarny kot 8/10

[Gio Mikava · Rating 3 out of 5]

ზოგადად დეტექტივები არ მიზიდავს, აგატაც კი, მაგრამ უცებ წასაკითხად ნორმალურია, იქ ბევრი ვიცინე, საფრანგეთში არ არიან არც აზიელები და არც აფრიკელებიო

[Gia Jgarkava · Rating 4 out of 5]

ეს წიგნი ისე ძალიან არ მომეწონა, როგორც წესით უნდა მომწონებოდა, რადგან მაშინ შერლოკ ჰოლმსი ისეთი იდეალი იყო, რომელთანაც მეგრეები და პუაროები ახლოსაც ვერ მივიდოდნენ. თუმცა ეხლა რო მახსენდება ამათაც არა უშავდათ :)

[Plamena Anova · Rating 2 out of 5]

Заа пореден път се убеждавам, че разказите просто не са за мен... Иначе като цяло книгата не е лоша. Най-много ми хареса Убийството на улица "Морг" - наистина гениално замислен.

[আহসানুল শোভন · Rating 2 out of 5]

এই গল্পের মাধ্যমে অগাস্ত দ্যুঁপে'র সাথে পরিচয় হলো। তবে রহস্যটা জমাট কিছু ছিলো না। এটারও অনুবাদ..