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The story opens with a lengthy explanation of ratiocination. Dupin demonstrates his prowess by deducing his companion's thoughts as if through apparent supernatural power. The story then turns to the baffling double murder of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter at their home in the Rue Morgue, a fictional street in Paris. According to newspaper accounts, the mother was found in a yard behind the house, with multiple broken bones and her throat so deeply cut that her head fell off when the body was moved. The daughter was found strangled to death and stuffed upside down into a chimney. The murders occurred in a fourth-floor room that was locked from the inside; on the floor were found a bloody straight razor, several bloody tufts of gray hair, and two bags of gold coins. Several witnesses reported hearing two voices at the time of the murder, one male and French, but disagreed on the language spoken by the other. The speech was unclear, and every witness admits that he does not know the language he claims to have heard.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe Byam Shaw 9781544064093 Books
In the views of many critics, C. Auguste Dupin is the template for all the thousands of private detectives in fiction. Edgar Allan Poe, the troubled genius of 19th century American literature, brought him to life in three short stories: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” (1842) and “The Purloined Letter” (1844).When Poe penned his stories, the word “detective” did not even exist in the sense that it is used today. Now, the Mystery Writers of America present annual awards, the Edgars, named in honor of the inventor of the detective story.
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” the first and best of Poe’s three famous detective stories, was published in April 1841 in Graham’s Magazine, owned by a Philadelphia lawyer, George Graham. Poe was then working as the editor of the literary magazine, which had a circulation of only around 5,000, but due to Poe’s reputation as a biting literary critic and the author of some of the most famous poems and short stories of the first half of the 19th century the magazine’s impact on the literary world was much greater than its circulation numbers would suggest.
Auguste Dupin is a Parisian, an aristocrat who comes from a wealthy family but who through untoward circumstances has been reduced to near-poverty. He lives with the unnamed narrator in a flat in an old mansion. The two have little money to spare, with their only luxuries being old books. That common interest is how the two met, when both were searching for a rare volume in an obscure library in Montmartre.
Dupin is introduced as a man of analytical mind, “fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics.” As Sherlock Holmes would do later with Watson, Dupin is able to deduce what his friend the narrator is thinking by putting together a series of clues.
The character of Auguste Dupin is thought to have been based on Eugène François Vidocq (1775-1857), a French criminal who reformed and became the founder and first head of the Sûreté Nationale, the state security police. Later, Vidocq established the world’s first private detective agency, Le bureau des renseignements (Office of Information). Vidocq is considered by many to be the father of modern criminology. Poe likely saw a series of articles on Vidocq published in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, another Philadelphia literary magazine that Poe briefly edited.
In “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” the narrator and Dupin discuss newspaper accounts of the brutal murders of a mother and daughter. The body of the mother, Madame L’Expanaye, had been found in the yard behind their apartment building in Quartier St. Roch, with multiple bones broken and her throat cut so deeply that when police try to move the body her head falls off. A tuft of reddish hair is clutched in her dead hand. Her daughter has been strangled and her body stuffed upside down in a chimney in the flat. The door and windows of the fourth-floor room on Rue Morgue where the murders took place were closed and locked. This street did not actually exist in Paris at the time, but a place where dead bodies are kept was the perfect title for the story.
Four thousand French francs in gold (around $8,000 in today’s money) had been delivered from a bank three days before the murders, but the gold had not been taken, so robbery was ruled out as a motive. Neighbors and passersby, including a Spaniard, an Englishman, a Dutchman, an Italian and a Frenchman, were interviewed. They had not seen anyone enter or leave the apartment. They all heard a man speaking French, but they could not agree on what language was spoken by the presumed murderer. Despite a lack of evidence, a bank clerk, Adolphe Le Bon, who had arranged the delivery of the gold francs was arrested for the murders. Le Bon had once done a good deed for Dupin, so the French aristocrat decides to solve the crime and get the bank clerk set free.
Mostly from information on newspaper reports, with consultation with the Prefect of police, “G-“ and with a visit to the scene of the murders, Dupin is able to determine that the bank clerk had nothing to do with the murders. He concludes that murderer (now so well known that there is no need to avoid giving away the ending) in fact is an "Ourang-Outang" or orangutan kept by a sailor. Dupin places an advertisement in a newspaper asking the owner to claim the animal. It turns out that the primate escaped from its locked room ran away from its owner, carrying a straight razor that it had seen the sailor use, committed the murders and escaped through a fourth-story window, with the spring-loaded sash closing on its own. Under French law of the time, neither the orangutan nor its owner could be held responsible. The wrongly arrested bank clerk is released. The sailor sells the ape and goes his way. Dupin, despite his poverty, refuses to accept an offer of a reward from the sailor.
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” likely derives from Poe’s recollection of the display of an orangutan at the Masonic Hall in Philadelphia in July 1839.
The story ends with a quote from Rousseau in French (Poe was fluent in French) about the incompetent Prefect of Police G-, whom Dupin believe to be “too cunning to be profound:” “de nier ce qui est, et d'expliquer ce qui n'est pas” (“to deny that which is, and explore that which is not.”
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe Byam Shaw 9781544064093 Books Reviews
The vocabulary is beyond most people's ability. The reasoning also unlikely to be accomplished or followed by ordinary folk
A fascinating tale.
Just one question my copy has a very poor contrast, making reading dificult.
Other e-books OK. I think the same is occuring with THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET.
It looks like there is a bakground color, instead of black ink over a white sheet.
Any help ?
The book holds its own after all these years. Edgar Allen Poe is a genius. The story is magical and engaging
Poe's story has one of the first "detective" in literature. M. Dupin looks at the situation, follows the clues, and comes up with the true murderer. Today, detectives supported their suppositions with fingerprints, DNA, and complicated lab procedures. It was interesting to see the murder solved by deduction.
Not the literary classic I was hoping it to be. That said, I clearly see Poe's influence on the true early giants of the mystery genre. A few re-reads my manifest a fourth-star, but upon a first reading three is all I can muster.
I read this book so quickly and then got busy living life that I had to go back and look at my book club discussion notes to remember my thoughts on it. In any case, I enjoyed it. Some of my thoughts are below.
The first part of the story was hard to follow and read through. Once we started to meet the characters and discovered their interest in solving a crime, it got good pretty fast. This story is told by a narrator, an unnamed character in the story and through newspaper articles. In rare form, I think this really worked for this story. I wouldn’t have minded if there had been more firsthand accounts from the witnesses, though. The character of Dupin is a precursor to the likes of Sherlock Holmes, but I think he has less personality. Still, it was fun to watch him explain his level of logic.
The description of the crime scene was quite vivid in my mind. I could see the large strangle marks around the neck and still squinch my face each time I see the body hanging out of the chimney. It was a bit much at times, but then I remember that I’m reading Poe and keep going. Poe has a way of bringing out the darkness in a place, time, character, or subject matter while making that darkness feel natural. I think he was the first author to really capitalize on the fact that sometimes people do or think dark things, not because they are evil (without denying evil may exist), but because it’s part of being human.
Good read for fans of dark fiction, mystery and crime stories, and of course, Edgar Allan Poe.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a very small short story that was originally published in Graham’s Magazine back in 1841. You could scarcely find a simpler plot. Two women are violently murdered in their own apartment by a killer whose entrance and escape seem impossible. Several male voices are heard during the time of the murder, one of which speaks in a language that none of the witnesses can identify. C. Auguste Dupin and his associate travel to the murder scene and solve the mystery.
Dupin is regarded as the first detective (despite not being an actual detective) in the history of literature and The Murders in the Rue Morgue the first detective story. It’s a very simple story but Edger Allen Poe has such a deft skill as a writer that it feels perfectly crafted even if the solution is revealed almost immediately after the mystery is presented. Poe would use Dupin in several more stories and he is likely the inspiration from some of literatures most acclaimed sleuths including Sherlock Holmes who first appeared in 1887.
I really enjoyed the story and it can be easily read in its entirety in a single sitting over a coffee drink. If you don’t like it, well, you won’t have spent much time from your life.
In the views of many critics, C. Auguste Dupin is the template for all the thousands of private detectives in fiction. Edgar Allan Poe, the troubled genius of 19th century American literature, brought him to life in three short stories “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” (1842) and “The Purloined Letter” (1844).
When Poe penned his stories, the word “detective” did not even exist in the sense that it is used today. Now, the Mystery Writers of America present annual awards, the Edgars, named in honor of the inventor of the detective story.
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” the first and best of Poe’s three famous detective stories, was published in April 1841 in Graham’s Magazine, owned by a Philadelphia lawyer, George Graham. Poe was then working as the editor of the literary magazine, which had a circulation of only around 5,000, but due to Poe’s reputation as a biting literary critic and the author of some of the most famous poems and short stories of the first half of the 19th century the magazine’s impact on the literary world was much greater than its circulation numbers would suggest.
Auguste Dupin is a Parisian, an aristocrat who comes from a wealthy family but who through untoward circumstances has been reduced to near-poverty. He lives with the unnamed narrator in a flat in an old mansion. The two have little money to spare, with their only luxuries being old books. That common interest is how the two met, when both were searching for a rare volume in an obscure library in Montmartre.
Dupin is introduced as a man of analytical mind, “fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics.” As Sherlock Holmes would do later with Watson, Dupin is able to deduce what his friend the narrator is thinking by putting together a series of clues.
The character of Auguste Dupin is thought to have been based on Eugène François Vidocq (1775-1857), a French criminal who reformed and became the founder and first head of the Sûreté Nationale, the state security police. Later, Vidocq established the world’s first private detective agency, Le bureau des renseignements (Office of Information). Vidocq is considered by many to be the father of modern criminology. Poe likely saw a series of articles on Vidocq published in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, another Philadelphia literary magazine that Poe briefly edited.
In “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” the narrator and Dupin discuss newspaper accounts of the brutal murders of a mother and daughter. The body of the mother, Madame L’Expanaye, had been found in the yard behind their apartment building in Quartier St. Roch, with multiple bones broken and her throat cut so deeply that when police try to move the body her head falls off. A tuft of reddish hair is clutched in her dead hand. Her daughter has been strangled and her body stuffed upside down in a chimney in the flat. The door and windows of the fourth-floor room on Rue Morgue where the murders took place were closed and locked. This street did not actually exist in Paris at the time, but a place where dead bodies are kept was the perfect title for the story.
Four thousand French francs in gold (around $8,000 in today’s money) had been delivered from a bank three days before the murders, but the gold had not been taken, so robbery was ruled out as a motive. Neighbors and passersby, including a Spaniard, an Englishman, a Dutchman, an Italian and a Frenchman, were interviewed. They had not seen anyone enter or leave the apartment. They all heard a man speaking French, but they could not agree on what language was spoken by the presumed murderer. Despite a lack of evidence, a bank clerk, Adolphe Le Bon, who had arranged the delivery of the gold francs was arrested for the murders. Le Bon had once done a good deed for Dupin, so the French aristocrat decides to solve the crime and get the bank clerk set free.
Mostly from information on newspaper reports, with consultation with the Prefect of police, “G-“ and with a visit to the scene of the murders, Dupin is able to determine that the bank clerk had nothing to do with the murders. He concludes that murderer (now so well known that there is no need to avoid giving away the ending) in fact is an "Ourang-Outang" or orangutan kept by a sailor. Dupin places an advertisement in a newspaper asking the owner to claim the animal. It turns out that the primate escaped from its locked room ran away from its owner, carrying a straight razor that it had seen the sailor use, committed the murders and escaped through a fourth-story window, with the spring-loaded sash closing on its own. Under French law of the time, neither the orangutan nor its owner could be held responsible. The wrongly arrested bank clerk is released. The sailor sells the ape and goes his way. Dupin, despite his poverty, refuses to accept an offer of a reward from the sailor.
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” likely derives from Poe’s recollection of the display of an orangutan at the Masonic Hall in Philadelphia in July 1839.
The story ends with a quote from Rousseau in French (Poe was fluent in French) about the incompetent Prefect of Police G-, whom Dupin believe to be “too cunning to be profound” “de nier ce qui est, et d'expliquer ce qui n'est pas” (“to deny that which is, and explore that which is not.”
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