Mystery fans will recognize the influence "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" had on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series, both in the structure of the story and the character of the brilliant detective. To solve the mystery, he must discover the means of escape, make sense of the extraordinary violence that led to a severed head and a body shoved up the chimney, and explain a strange voice heard speaking in a tone foreign to witnesses of various nationalities. When the police, baffled by the unusual atrocity of the crime and apparent lack of motive, arrest an acquaintance of his, Dupin decides to investigate. The story concerns the brutal murders of two women in a locked room. Auguste Dupin, a young Parisian gentleman with a brilliantly analytical mind, who appears in two additional tales by Poe "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842) and " The Purloined Letter" (1844). Considered to be the first modern detective fiction, the story introduces C. It was first published in the April 1841 issue of Graham's Magazine. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by the American author Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin confronts the sailor implicated in the crime, 1909 illustration for “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Byam Shaw.
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