Several witnesses reported hearing two voices at the time of the murder, one male and French, but disagreed on the language spoken by the other. The murders occurred in a fourth-floor room that was locked from the inside on the floor were found a bloody straight razor, several bloody tufts of gray hair, and two bags of gold coins. The daughter was found strangled to death and stuffed upside down into a chimney. The mother was found in a yard behind the house, with multiple broken bones and her throat so deeply cut that her head fell off when the body was moved. Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter have been found dead at their home in the Rue Morgue, a fictional street in Paris. One evening, Dupin demonstrates his analytical prowess by deducing the narrator's thoughts about a particular stage actor, based on clues gathered from the narrator's previous words and actions.ĭuring the remainder of that evening and the following morning, Dupin and the narrator read with great interest the newspaper accounts of a baffling double murder. The two share rooms in a dilapidated old mansion and allow no visitors, having cut off all contact with past acquaintances and venturing outside only at night.

The unnamed narrator of the story opens with a lengthy commentary on the nature and practice of analytical reasoning, then describes the circumstances under which he first met Dupin during an extended visit to Paris. Dupin himself reappears in ' The Mystery of Marie Rogêt' and ' The Purloined Letter'. Many later characters, for example, follow Poe's model of the brilliant detective, his personal friend who serves as narrator, and the final revelation being presented before the reasoning that leads up to it. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human.Īs the first fictional detective, Poe's Dupin displays many traits which became literary conventions in subsequent fictional detectives, including Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. It has been described as the first modern detective story Poe referred to it as one of his 'tales of ratiocination'.

' The Murders in the Rue Morgue' is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. Facsimile of Poe's original manuscript for 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'

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