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The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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Format and runtime: Short story 1h 32m

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About the story.

A shocking crime in a Paris house leaves the authorities with a room full of disturbing evidence and witness accounts that seem to contradict one another. Public attention only makes the apparent impossibility more compelling.

Poe introduces Dupin’s method through a mystery that rewards patient attention to the exact terms of a problem. Observation and imagination must work together before the scene can begin to make sense.