"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mysterious brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin...
