The World’s First Murder Mystery: A Birthday Present from Edgar A. Poe
By Susan Amper
January 22, 2016It was Edgar Allan Poe's birthday this week (he would have turned 207 on January 19th), and the man who gave us so much with his writing managed to be so selfless as to give us a birthday gift. Though not actually a supernatural gift from the grave, one of Poe's earliest short stories, “The…