Mystery lovers and sleuths!  Auguste Dupin, the amateur sleuth, who appears in Poe’s 1841 short story, “The Murder in the Rue Morgue,” is the prototype for Holmes, Poirot, and other great fictional detectives. On Wednesday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m. Professor Elaine Craighead will give a talk called “Murder in the Rue Morgue and the Genesis of the Detective Story.”   The free lecture is open to all in the Keys Community Room, lower level of the Milton Public Library at 476 Canton Avenue in Milton, MA.

Prof. Elaine Craighead regularly teaches the stories of Poe and Doyle and is currently a tenured Associate Professor of Humanities at Massachusetts Maritime Academy.   If you would like to read the “The Murder In the Rue Morgue” beforehand, go to this link.