In the house on Morg Street, two female corpses are found. The police have neither motives nor evidence for this mysterious crime. Only one thing is clear: the murderer not only has inhuman strength, but also can dissolve into the fog of the night…
And then one of France’s best detectives, Auguste Dupin, takes the case. He skillfully unravels every knot and puts the pieces of the puzzle together into a single whole…
By publishing his story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” in April 1841, American writer Edgar Allan Poe laid the foundations of the detective genre and introduced a new kind of hero into literature—a noble investigator endowed with outstanding mental abilities and a “gift of analysis,” with which he expertly investigates even the most difficult mysteries and crimes.
Auguste Dupin is the first famous intellectual detective—followed by other literary characters: Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Father Brown, Commissioner Maigret, and others.