Hugh Allan

as a criminal underworld. Yet the crucial change in emphasis from the reporting of crime in newspapers to the solving of mysteries in stories came from abroad, from the founding ‘sealed chamber’ story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) by Edgar Allan Poe. It appeared in French in 1846, long before Baudelaire’s superior translations, in several pirated versions which, however, diluted the solving of the crime by adding sensational details of its execution in the manner of the more factual littérature

COGSA 217 Sur ce point, voir un excellent article écrit par M.Michael Sturley : Modernizing and Roforming U.S. Maritime Law: The Impact of the Rotteram Rules in the United States, Texas International Law Journal 2009, p.p.427/455. 218 MENDESOHN Allan I., Why the U.S. did not ratify the Visby Amendments, JMLC 1992. 219 BONASSIES Pierre, Soixante ans après – Un nouveau COGSA américain, DMF 1996, p.p. 614. 220 Sur le texte du projet du COGSA 1999, voir: l’annexe 5. En ce qui concerne l’histoire du