title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Modern Library Classics)
author:  Edgar Allan Poe 
description: <b>Matthew Pearl</b> is the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow,</i> <i>The Last Dickens, The Technologists, The Last Bookaneer, </i>and <i>The Dante Chamber,</i> and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante&rsquo;s <i>Inferno</i> (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe&rsquo;s <i>The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales</i>. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and his nonfiction writing has appeared in <i>The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, </i>and <i>Slate</i>.
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