![]() 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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