On 1st January 1906, Edith Holden made the first entry in a diary which was to record the countryside through the changing seasons of that year. It was initially written to encourage her pupils at Solihull school to learn more about nature.
Gisela Etzel Books
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- 176 pages
- 7 hours of reading
In just five stories, Edgar Allan Poe laid down most of the ground rules of detective fiction. In the three tales featuring Auguste Dupin (The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter) he created the Great Detective, not to mention the locked-room mystery, the notion of armchair detection and the secret-service story; The Gold Bug revolved around the use of cyphers; and Thou Art the Man made use of false clues and the least likely suspect.
