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Episode 129 Advil Can Be Deadly
This episode deals with what can be described as two detective stories - the first a true story that happened last month that could best be described as a medical detective story - that the “culprit” could not be found at first.The second is the generally viewed as the first literary detective story - Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”
- What was the “culprit” in George’s medical detective story?
- What was the first modern day literary detective story?
- What conventions did that story establish?
- Who or what were the murderers in Poe’s story?
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:25 A True Medical Detective Story
- 09:58 The First Detective Story
- 14:55 Enter Mr. Poe
- 24:15 Future Episodes
- 25L50 Sources
- 26:25 Outro
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