The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2: The Birth of Mystery / Detective Fiction: Join Auguste Dupin's deductions in 'The Purloined Letter' and face the terrifying Norwegian sea in this masterpiece collection.

Before Sherlock Holmes, there was C. Auguste Dupin-step into the labyrinth of the world's original detective and confront the deepest terrors of the human psyche.

In this spectacular second volume, plunge into the gaslit streets of 19th-century Paris where a scandalous stolen document baffles the Prefecture of Police. Only one man possesses the unparalleled genius to retrieve it-the brilliant eccentric Auguste Dupin in The Purloined Letter. But the journey doesn't stop in the parlor of pure ...