Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “Murder in the Rue Morgue” (1841) is considered the first work written in the detective genre.
The silence of a Paris night is broken by cries coming from a four-story building at the corner of Rue Morgue. In the house, two female corpses are discovered. The police prefect is baffled: the double murder has neither clear motives nor evidence. Only one thing is certain: the killer possesses not only inhuman strength, but also the ability to dissolve in the night fog.