Edgar Allan Poe, the creator of the modern mystery, was onto something when he declared that, "the death ... of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."That weird and repugnant statement appeared over a century and a half ago in an essay called "The Philosophy of Composition," but Poe could be talking about the popularity of true crime podcasts and documentaries in our own day.
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