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Essay Archive - Edgar Allen Poe's: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Edgar Allen Poe's: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
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, departing only
briefly each evening to take introspective strolls along the dark Paris streets.
Soon both the reader and the narrator begin to see Dupin's intimate knowledge
of the human mind, always an underlying element in Poe's p....
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