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The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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Literature Atlas. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-murders-in-the-rue-morgue.

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Literature Atlas. (n.d.). The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-murders-in-the-rue-morgue

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@misc{literatureatlas-the-murders-in-the-rue-morgue,
  author = {Literature Atlas},
  title = {The Murders in the Rue Morgue},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-murders-in-the-rue-morgue},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) is Edgar Allan Poe's short story introducing C. Auguste Dupin, an eccentric Parisian amateur reasoner who solves a brutal locked-room double murder that has stumped the police, by reasoning from physical evidence and observed detail rather than confession or informant testimony. Poe's own term for Dupin's method was ratiocination, and the story's pairing of a brilliant amateur detective with an admiring, less perceptive narrator became the template later detective fiction, most famously Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, would follow closely enough that Doyle himself repeatedly acknowledged the debt.

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from 1841 1

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to 1841 2

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