When George Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared their experience. He stayed in dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked crouching, as the miners did, from one to three miles, to the coal face which was a passage too low to stand up in. The essence of this book is the searing, yet beautiful...

Murder, mystery, and solving crime-the foundations of detective fiction. Featuring a foreword by USA Today bestselling author, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, This volume from the Father of Detective Fiction contains The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The purloined Letter, three stories featuring Poe's sentinel character, C. Auguste Dupin.