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|title=Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective

|author=Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec (Editors)

|publisher=Titan Books

|date=July 2013

|summary=A collection of short stories based on Edgar Allan Poe’s seminal detective, ranging from those that are faithful to the character to those that are fantastical.

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C. Auguste Dupin is often regarded as the first fictional detective and at the very least Edgar Allan Poe’s character was the blueprint for many sleuths to come, most notably Sherlock Holmes. Dupin is an eccentric genius from Paris whose use of logic and deduction aid the police on their most baffling cases. The characters literary debut was in the short story ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'' in 1841 and between 1842 and 1844 Poe wrote two more short stories about Dupin and his exploits. ''Beyond Rue Morgue'' contains nine stories (in addition to the original Poe tale) by various authors and gives many different takes on the same character or influenced by him. From samurai assassins and the apocalypse to an agoraphobic distant relative of Dupin attempting to solve a murder without even leaving her home; the different writers all take the intriguing character to places we wouldn’t expect and the creativity of all keeps the character fresh from story to story.