The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in
Graham’s Magazine in 1841 It has been described as the first modern detective
story; Poe referred to it as one of his “tales of ratiocination”.
C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of
two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what
language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear
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