This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews.
His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. He decides to offer his assistance to "G-", When a bank clerk named Adolphe Le Bon is arrested even though no evidence exists pointing to his guilt (other than his delivering the gold coins to the two ladies the day before), Dupin becomes intrigued and remembers a service that Le Bon once performed for him. "We existed within ourselves alone", the narrator explains. They have cut off contact with "former associates" and venture outside only at night. The two live in seclusion and allow no visitors. The speech was unclear, and every witness admits that he does not know the language he claims to have heard.Paris natives Dupin and his friend, the unnamed narrator of the story, read these newspaper accounts with interest. 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 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. The daughter was found strangled to death and stuffed upside down into a chimney. 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 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. Dupin demonstrates his prowess by deducing his companion's thoughts as if through apparent supernatural power. The story opens with a lengthy explanation of ratiocination. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841.
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