Why The Murders Revealed In Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
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Edgar Allan Poe wrote a poem called "The Raven", which made him famous. He sold it to The American Review and he only got $9 for it. An American football team was named after his poem, that team is the Baltimore Ravens. During his lifetime he moved many times. In Philadelphia he lived in several houses and one of them is preserved as a National Historic Site and is open to the public. One of the twelve copies of his first book was sold for $662,500. Edgar inlisted in the army under a false name. Through his books he tried to popularize the field of cryptography. It is believed that he never signed anything under Edgar All Poe. One of Poe's short stories is considered to be the first modern detective story, the name of the story is "The Murders