Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe,
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He guessed the story so accurately that Dickens wasgreatly surprised and asked him if he were the devil. Again at a later date Poe wrote a remarkable story, "The Mystery ofMarie Roget. " A young girl had been murdered in New York. Thenewspapers were full of accounts of the crime, but the police couldget no clew to the murderers. In Poe's story he wrote out exactly whathappened on the night of the murder, and explained the whole thing, asif he were an expert detective. Afterward, by the confessi...ons of twoof the participants, it was proved that his solution of the mysterywas almost exactly the truth. "The Gold-Bug" was not published until sometime later, but it was aseditor of _Graham's Magazine_ that Poe first became known as a writerof detective stories. One of the most famous is "The Murders of theRue Morgue. " It is an imaginary story, but none the less interesting. A murder was committed in Paris by an orang-outang, which had climbedin at a window and then closed the window behind it.
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