The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- First Published: 1841
- Type of Plot: Mystery and detective
- Time of Work: The 1830's
- Setting: Paris
- Principal Characters: The narrator, C. Auguste Dupin, Le Bon
- Genres: Short fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Detectives, Reason or reasoning
- Locales: Paris, France
The Story
This tale of ratiocination opens with a long discussion of the differences between the truly analytical mind and the mind that is possessed of great powers of calculation. What this long expository section sets up is the notion that persons possessed of this keen analytical faculty are different from other human beings. The story is narrated from the first-person point of view by a nameless young man who is residing in Paris during the spring and summer of an unnamed year sometime during the 1830's. He has come to Paris, it is implied, to make some discoveries about...
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