Edgar Allan Poe: I Invented the Detective Story — and My Own Death Became the Greatest Mystery No One Ever Solved
The father of detective fiction was found wandering Baltimore in a stranger's clothes, delirious — dying four days later with no confirmed cause. Over 20 theories, zero answers. He invented the genre, then became its greatest unsolved case.
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