This is the first of my weekly book review. I started reading "I, Claudius" but switched to Murders in the Rue Morgue because of the time crunch. I will review "I, Claudius" next week. I downloaded the book onto my new iPhone (which was the primary cause of my time crunch- wasting time exploring my new phone) using the Stanza app. More than the book I think I was more enamored by the application - I loved the ability to make notes, and add bookmarks. What I am not so pleased with is the dictionary. If you are reading a book on Stanza and want to look up a word use the browser, it is too slow and times out often. another disappointment was the quality of the book itself. There were numerous typos and grammatical errors - and it is a sorry day if even I can notice it.
As far as the story it is an unraveling of a murder mystery told by an unnamed narrator- much in the mold of Holmes' Watson or Poirot's Hastings. Dupin is the civilian -detective who unravels the mystery through his stunning deductive abilities while the narrator provides the foil of being the appreciative follower. A lot of times I felt I might be reading Doyle instead of Poe. I never realized how much Doyle must have been influenced by this story. Or was it a type of coincidence decried by Dupin as the excuse used by people who do not understand the law of averages? Well in any case, my personal feeling was that Sherlock Holmes was a very polished version of Dupin. The ending is not surprising and more so by the hideous cover- really if u are designing a cover for a mystery novel can you NOT put the reveal in the picture? Now who approved that cover is the true mystery in the book.
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