Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA, January 25th, 2008
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The manuscript of the first detective story ever written led a precarious life in Lancaster for several decades at the end of the 19th century,
J.M. Johnston, a Lancaster business man, repeatedly rescued Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue'' from disaster.
Poe's story of a murder and its resolution first appeared in Graham's Magazine, published at Philadelphia, in 1841.
Johnston, a young printer in Graham's office, retrieved the discarded manuscript of the story from a wastebasket, carried it home, added his name to it and placed it inside a book...
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