id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9849 The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Wikipedia .html text/html 5030 517 78 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. Poe biographer Jeffrey Meyers sums up the significance of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by saying it "changed the history of world literature."[2] Often cited as the first detective fiction story, the character of Dupin became the prototype for many future fictional detectives, including Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. It sold for 12 and a half cents.[35] This version included 52 changes from the original text from Graham's, including the new line: "The Prefect is somewhat too cunning to be profound", a change from the original "too cunning to be acute".[36] "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" was also reprinted in Wiley & Putnam's collection of Poe's stories simply called Tales. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9849.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9849.txt