The Sphinx

1846 short story by Edgar Allan Poe

Author: John Dickson Carr
First published: 1947
Editions: 6
Subjects: American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Fiction in English, Gideon Fell (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Translations into Russian, England, fiction, Fell, gideon (fictitious character), fiction

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publication date: 1846-01-00
first line: During the dread reign of the Cholera in New York, I had accepted the invitation of a relative to spend a fortnight with him in the retirement of his cottage ornee on the banks of the Hudson.
last line: “Still, it is by no means so large or so distant as you imagined it; for the fact is that, as it wriggles its way up this thread, which some spider has wrought along the window-sash, I find it to be about the sixteenth of an inch in its extreme length, and also about the sixteenth of an inch distant from the pupil of my eye.”
title: Le Sphinx
work available at URL: www.projekt-gutenberg.org/poe/sphinx/sphinx.html

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