Edgar Allan Poe, Detective Fiction, and the Parkman Murder, American Experience, Official Site
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The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day was the Parkman murder.
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PDF) “Forensic Imagination and the Materiality of Experience.” American Experience – The Experience of America. Ed. Andrzej Ceynowa and Marek Wilczynski. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013. 37-49.
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