Edgar Allen Poe's: "The Murders In The Rue Morgue"
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In Edgar Allen Poe's short story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", a
classic detective story is played out in a seedy Paris suburb. The story begins
as the narrator meets Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, a poor but well-read young man.
As they become close friends, they live together in seclusion, depar ....
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.... related by
a series of eleven eyewitnesses, a diverse mix of occupation and culture.
However, they concur on one point: all heard an indistinguishable voice ("that
of a foreigner") and one of an angered Frenchman at the scene of the crime. As
the account of the last witness is registered, Dupin and the narrator decide to
examine the apartment on the Rue Morgue for themselves. The Sherlock Holmes-
like protagonist does not disappoint us. Dupin assures the narrator that he
knows who the culprit i ....
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