Schuyler: Mystery

''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'' is arguably the first _____ ever written?

• Historical romance

• Detective story

• Creative nonfiction story

• Surrealist story

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In the Murders in the Rue Morgue, who killed Madame L'Espanaye and Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye?

• A Lion

• An orangutan

• A Dog

• A Person

What was the name of the first detective story?

• The Raven

• The Fall of the House of Usher

• Sherlock Holmes

• Murders in the Rue Morgue

This Poe work sees the reappearance of Dupin (from Rue Morgue)--in this work, Dupin finds a missing letter hiding in plain sight.

• The Raven

• The Purloined Letter

• The Scarlet Letter

• Anabelle Lee

Rachel Verinder’s 18th birthday party is marred by the theft of a sacred gem plundered from India that Rachel had just inherited. Suspicion falls on a trio of Indian jugglers, but also on Rachel herself.

• The Raven

• Romancing the Stone

• The Moonstone

• The Red Masque

The author of The Moonstone is

• Wilkie Collins

• Arthur Conan Doyle

• Agatha Christie

• Dashell Hammett

In this Sherlock Holmes talk, Watson finds evidence that Holmes and Moriarity died fighting one another at Reichenbach Falls.

• The House of SILK

• The Final Solution

• The Final Problem

• The Speckled Band

The author who created Sherlock Holmes

• Alexandre Dumas

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Edgar Allen Poe

• Wilkie Collins

Heirs to an estate are being killed by a schemer who wants to inherit the land. He uses a legend about a hell hound to terrify some of his victims. Holmes and Watson thwart his plot.

• The Hound of the Baskervilles

• Wuthering Heights

• Old Yeller

• The Orange Pips

Sam Spade is a private detective who deals with cheating spouses and murder as he tries to find the real version of a priceless statue. In the end, he turns the murderess into the police despite the fact that she loves him.

• Murder on the Orient Express

• The Big Chill

• And Then There Were None

• The Maltese Falcon