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"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a ...
- United States
- April 1841
- English
- Graham's Magazine
A classic example of Poe's macabre and ingenious style, this story depicts the analysis of a murder case by a detective and a madman. The narrator explains his own role as a chess-player and a critic of the game, and compares the detective's methods with the intuitive powers of the madman.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue Part Two iT Was in paRis in The summeR of 1840 that I met August Dupin. He was an unusually interesting young man with a busy, forceful mind. This mind could, it seemed, look right through a man’s body into his soul, and uncover his deepest thoughts. Sometimes he seemed to be not one, but two people — one who ...
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue, short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in Graham’s magazine in 1841. It is considered one of the first detective stories. 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A classic tale of murder and detection by Edgar Allan Poe, featuring the analytical genius C. Auguste Dupin. Learn how Dupin solves the mysterious case of the Rue Morgue murders, involving a gorilla, a sailor, and a chimney.
A summary and analysis of Poe's short story The Murders in the Rue-Morgue, a Gothic mystery about a pair of detectives who solve a gruesome murder in Paris. The story explores the themes of logic, creativity, and madness through the narrator's description of the analytical mind and his friend Dupin, who has a mysterious gift for observation and intuition.
Learn how Edgar Allan Poe introduced the basic features of detective fiction in his first tale of ratiocination. Find out how M. Dupin solves the locked-room mystery of two women killed in their apartment by a mysterious beast.
