THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (PT 1) by EDGAR ALLAN POE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 31 December 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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"The Murders In The Rue Morgue" (Pt 1): In what many consider to be one of Poe's best short stories, and the first detective story, a man uses his extraordinary powers of deduction to solve a crime that the Paris police find baffling.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to another episode from 1001 classic short stories and tales, |
| 0:35.3 | this one from Edgar Allan Poe, and one which is considered by many |
| 0:39.8 | to be his best. The Murders in the Rue Morg. It was published in Graham's Magazine in |
| 0:46.4 | 1841, and it has since been recognized as the first modern detective story. Poe referred to it as one |
| 0:53.9 | of his tales of a raciocination, |
| 0:56.6 | an early word for what detectives would call rationalization, a process we all use, and one which |
| 1:02.7 | better detectives use quite well. The word detective had not yet been invented in 1841, but Poe's |
| 1:09.9 | famous detective was C. Auguste Dupin. |
| 1:13.3 | And in this story, Dupin is a man in Paris who looks into and then solves the mystery |
| 1:18.8 | of a brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on |
| 1:24.5 | what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupan finds a hair that does not appear to be human. |
| 1:31.6 | As the first fictional detective, Poe's DuPan displays many traits which became literary |
| 1:36.9 | conventions in subsequent fictional detectives, including Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Porot. |
| 1:43.6 | Many later characters, for example, follow Poe's |
| 1:46.0 | model of the brilliant detective, his personal friend who serves as narrator, and the final |
| 1:51.2 | revelation being presented before the reasoning that leads up to it. DuPan himself reappears in |
| 1:56.8 | the mystery of Marie Rogey and the purloined letter. We include the tell-tale heart in our archives, |
| 2:04.7 | and we've placed a link in the show notes for your convenience if you'd like to hear that one. |
| 2:09.3 | We're going to begin this story by setting the stage for you with regard to the characters and |
| 2:13.7 | locale of the story, and then giving you an express pass to the point of the story |
| 2:18.0 | at which the real mystery begins. |
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