The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“Murder in the Rue Morgue” (sometimes translated as “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” or “A Double Murder in the Rue Morgue”) is a famous short story by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, commonly regarded as the first detective work in the history of literature. Auguste Dupin, a young man with outstanding analytical abilities, investigates a brutal and mysterious murder of two women committed in Paris on the Rue Morgue.