The Murders in the Rue Morgue 莫爾格街兇殺案(英文版)
TheMurdersintheRueMorgueisashortstorybyEdgarAllanPoepublishedinGraham'sMagazinein1841.IthasbeenclaimedasthefirstdetectivestoryandalsoasthemodelforSherlockHolmesandHerculePoirot;Poereferredtoitasoneofhis"talesofratiocination".SimilarworkspredatePoe'sstories,includingDasFrauleinvonScuderi(1819)byE.T.A.HoffmannandZadig(1748)byVoltaire.DetectiveC.AugusteDupinisfacedwiththemostpuzzlingcaseofhiscareeraswitnessaccountscontradicteachotherandkeyevidencefromtheperpetratordoesnotappeartobehumanwhenthemutilatedbodiesofMadameL'EspanayeandherdaughterarefoundintherueMorgue.InthestoryallofParisisinshockfollowingtheghastlymurderoftwowomen-butwithallwitnessesclaimingtohaveheardthesuspectspeakadifferentlanguage,thepolicearestumped.WhenDupinfindsasuspicioushairatthecrimescene,andplacesanadvertinthenewspaperaskingifanyonehaslostan'Ourang-Outang',thingstakeanunexpectedturn…
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