French Classic Mysteries

Writer, poet, critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809 and became a literary sensation in 1845 with the publication of his poem "The Raven," considered a great American literary work and one of the best of Poe's career.

Edgar Allan Poe vient de créer le premier détective de la littérature policière.

The Ring of Thoth is a tale of fantasy, mystery, the supernatural and horror by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

"Mon Dieu ! Mon Dieu ! Je vais donc écrire enfin ce qui m'est arrivé ! Mais le pourrai-je ? l'oserai-je ? cela est si bizarre, si inexplicable, si incompréhensible, si fou ! Si je n'étais sûr de ce que j'ai vu, sûr qu'il n'y a eu, dans mes raisonnements, aucune défaillance, aucune erreur dans mes constatations, pas de lacune dans la suite inflexible de mes observations, je me croirais un simple halluciné, le jouet d'une étrange vision. Après tout, qui sait ?"

"The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the second tale from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Published in 1903, "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder" is notable for being the first Sherlock Holmes story to reference fingerprint analysis.