3. “Homicide within the Rue Morgue” (1841)
The unique story, titled “The Murders within the Rue Morgue” introduces us to a person named C. Auguste Dupin, who solves the titular thriller. Within the present, he takes the place of the unnamed narrator from “The Fall of the Home of Usher.” Notably, Dupin precedes fictional detective Sherlock Holmes by nearly 50 years.
The story, instructed once more by an unnamed narrator, recounts his assembly with Dupin and the way they be taught of the murders of Madame L’Espanaye and her daughter Camille. The 2 had been discovered maimed, with the mom’s physique of their residence’s yard and Camille’s stuffed up a chimney. The murders occurred in a fourth-floor, locked room.
Following the clues, Dupin deduces that the ladies had been murdered not by a person however by an “Ourang-Outang.” In immediately’s parlance, after all, that is an orangutan, which a sailor had introduced again from Borneo. This can be a fairly early instance of a whodunit thriller, that includes an investigator particularly using logic and reasoning to unravel a mysterious crime.
