Looking Back: Edgar Allen Poe
The popular thriller books have always been related to public interest in the problems of modern, urban life, particularly in crime. Fascinated by the ever- increasing impact of crime on the Western social life, many writers deemed as mystery authors vilified and romanticized criminals as well as those who fought them. Edgar Allen Poe being one such top-notch mystery writer whose Dupin stories- consisting of "The Murder in the Rue Morgue", "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", and "The Purloined Letter" – which revolved around a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. "The Murder in the Rue Morgue" is regarded to be the one that set the form of not only Poe's other stories, but of all subsequent mystery fiction books. Poe's crime fiction books are regarded to be the direct ancestors of Sir Arthur Canon Doyle's Sherlock Holmes tales and still stand out as unique, utterly engrossing page turners.