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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....
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