murder

This detective short story from E. A. Poe has been recognized as the first modern detective story. Poe referred to it as one of his “tales of ratiocination”. Two murders happened that time in Paris and…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective short story The Crooked Man starts off with a crime committed within a locked room. Colonel James Barkley is found dead in his home, and his wife, Nancy, is the prime…