Tales of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ... HEN, in an article entitled "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," I endeavoured, about a year ago, to depict some very remarkable features in the mental character of my friend, the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, it did not occur to me that I should ever resume the subject. This depicting of character constituted my design, and this design was thoroughly fulfilled in the wild train of circumstances brought to instance Dupin's idiosyncrasy. I might have adduced other examples, but I should have proved no more. Late events, however, in their surprising development, have startled me into some further details, which will carry with them the air of extorted confession. Hearing what I have lately heard, it would be indeed strange should I remain silent in regard to what I both heard and saw so long ago. * In the present narrative the author, under pretence of relating the fate of a Parisian grisette, has followed in minute detail the essential facts of a murder which was committed in the vicinity of New York, and which occasioned an intense and long-enduring excitement, and the mystery attending which had reroaintd unsolved at the period when the present article was originally written and published, viz., Nov. 1842. The "Mystery of Mnry Roget" was composed at a distance from the scene of the atrocity, and with no other means of investigation than the newspapers afforded. Thus much escaped the writer of which he could have availed himself had he heen upon the spot, and visited the localities. It may not he improper to record, nevertheless, that the confessions of twn persons (one of them the M tilame Deluc of the narrative), made, at different periods, long subsequent to tbe publication, confirmed in full, not only the general conclusion, but absolutely...