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"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Short story by Edgar Allan Poe
Facsimile of Poe's original manuscript for "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
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Country
United States
Language
English
Genre(s)
Detective fiction Short story
Publication
Published in
Graham's Magazine
Media type
Print (Magazine)
Publication date
April 1841
"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;[1][2] Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".[1]
C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human.
As the first fictional detective, Poe's Dupin displays many traits which became literary conventions in subsequent fictional detectives, including Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. 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. Dupin himself reappears in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" and "The Purloined Letter".
^ abSilverman 1991, p. 171
^Meyers 1992, p. 123
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