The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The story opens with the discovery of the violent murder of an old woman and her daughter. No grisly detail is spared in the description of the crime scene as it is discovered by neighbours responding to the women’s screams. The police are baffled by the fact that the murderer has managed to escape even though the women’s apartment appears to have been completely sealed from the inside. The genteel but impoverished C. Auguste Dupin and his nameless friend—who narrates the story—offer their services to the police and, through a brilliant interpretation of the clues at the scene, identify the murderer—an escaped orangutan. (https://www.britannica.com/)

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe

Oxford University Press

2002

Abstract

There are many famous detectives in the world of books – Philip Marlowe in Los Angeles, Vic Warshawski in Chicago, Inspector Morse in Oxford and of couse, the great Sherlock Holmes in London. But before any of these, there was Monsieur Auguste Dupin in Paris.

He was not a police and not really a detective either. He was a quiet young man, who loved books and reading. But he was clever and he could understand many things that other people did not. He took a close interst in the horrible murders in the Rue Morgue, because there were no answers to the mystery. Who murdered the old lady and her daughter? Why were the murders so brutal? How did the murderer get out of the house? So many questions and no answers.

“The secret” said Auguste Dupin “is to ask the right questions. Then you will find the answers…”

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Edgar Allan Poe. The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Oxford University Press, 2002.

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