The Murders In The Rue Morgue By Edgar Allan Poe

Mystery Fiction is a type of fiction that has been around since the early 19th century. Mystery Fiction began to popularize and grow with readers at the beginning of the English Renaissance. The first detective mystery fiction was The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the first to redirect the focus of mystery novels to the intellectual side of the criminal’s mindset. With Mystery Fiction there can be a number of sub genres such as locked room, police procedural, amateur or professional sleuth, historical, Golden Age, legal, paranormal, hard boiled, Holmesian, woman/child in peril, caper/heist, espionage/spy and many more.(Talesofmurder, 2018) The story In the Woods is considered is a mystery fiction

A girl, Katy Devlin, goes into the same woods and a couple of days later she is found dead. The girl was beaten with a rock and left on the ground. Rob accepted this case to investigate with his partner Cassie Maddox because this is something he can connect with . Since he went through a terrifying situation in the woods as a child he was inspired and motivated to do his best to get down to the bottom of the case and have the murderer pay for what they did. (French, 13-24) Also later on in the book it is mentioned that Rob Ryan replaced his first name with his middle name because of what happened to his friends the night they were in the woods. Rob’s real name is actually Adam Ryan and later on in the story he is punished for

Towards the end of the book manipulation was used when trying to solve the investigation. Rob and Cassie manipulate their suspect Rosalind, who is Katy Devlin’s sister, by telling her that they are sleeping together and Cassie promised to keep Rosalind updated on the case if she promises not to tell their secret. With Cassie doing this it made Rosalind feel like she can trust them and Rosalind started to tell Cassie and Rob that she set up a scheme to have murderer kill her sister because of a lie she told about her father and sister relationship. While Rosalind was telling her confession she was being recorded through a wired and immediately was arrested afterwards. At this point of the situation another manipulation case happens because Rosalind told Rob she was eighteen but in reality she was still seventeen which means her confession was thrown out because of her