The Murders in the Rue Morgue
by Edgar Allan Poe · first published 1841
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"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.
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I always found Edgar Allan Poe's take on Chess from The Murders in the Rue Morgue (https://poestories.com/read/murders) interesting; The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and merely…
on “What is Chess? What to think and how long for” ↗…Doyle himself acknowledged Edgar Allan Poe's influence in his creation of Sherlock Holmes. So fans of detective fiction should absolutely read the three stories featuring Poe's hero Auguste Dupin; 1) The Murders in The Rue Morgue. 2) The Mystery of Marie Roget (supposedly based on a true story). 3) The Purloined letter. (1) and (2) in particular have fantastic chains of reasoning which is just delightful.
on “Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)” ↗Poe is amazing: he basically invented detective novels with his character C. Auguste Dupin in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Conan Doyle credits this directly in the first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet": Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. “No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing…
on “On Edgar Allan Poe” ↗…writings spanned very many genre of literature. Some of his stories, eg. "The Man of the Crowd" defy any simple categorization. And the language is just beautiful, a couple of my favourites; From "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"; THE mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they…
on “Edgar Allan Poe Needs a Friend” ↗…acknowledged Poe's influence (via his character Auguste Dupin) on Sherlock Holmes in "A Study in Scarlet". Poe wrote three stories starring his detective Auguste Dupin all of which are fantastic. They are "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter". They are a must-read for all fans of detective fiction. Folks who have read Sherlock Holmes can see how much he was influenced by Dupin. The…
on “The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)” ↗Really like his 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'
on “Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells” ↗…to inspire and entertain readers around the world. Here are some of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous works: "The Raven" (1845) "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842) "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842) "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846) "Annabel Lee" (1849) "Lenore" (1843) "Ulalume" (1847) Poe's work has been praised for its…
on “ChatGPT vs. Bard: A Realistic Comparison” ↗…the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, and the mere attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen. -- From "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe. Read it at https://poestories.com/read/murders
on “A Man Who Thought Too Fast (2020)” ↗“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, if anyone’s wondering about the detective story: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fict...
on “Edgar Allan Poe, Quintessential American Writer” ↗…fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. -- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe Now apply the above to "complex" (eg. C++/Rust/etc.) vs. "simple" (eg. C/Scheme/etc.) languages. Note also the different mental modes between "constructing a program" (i.e. synthesis)…
on “The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023)” ↗…exercise based on analysis of speech, vocal inflections, visible features, and previous actions than a portable EKG machine with wires on the scalp. See Poe's detective Auguste Dupin, in, for example, "Murders in the Rue Morgue."
on “IBM: Mind reading is less than five years away. For real.” ↗Agreed. In middle school, my English teacher had a box of compic book (!!) adaptations of classic literature -- Murders in the Rue Morgue, etc. I had already read or heard of many of the authors, but this was a quick introduction / plot-overview of many of the rest of them. It was like finding a secret stash of new jelly bean flavors:…
on “The Percy Jackson Problem” ↗…than Holmes, Poe, or Collins. The first Sherlock Holmes story was A Study in Scarlet[1] which appeared in 1887. Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone[2] appeared in 1868. Poe's first detective story was The Murders in the Rue Morgue[3] which appeared in 1841. Before that was ETA Hoffmann's Mademoiselle de Scuderi[4] (featuring a female detective, no less), appearing in 1819. Long before that was Voltaire's Zadig[5], which appeared…
on “The Enduring Fascination with Sherlock Holmes” ↗Although Edgar Allan Poe is well known, I think his influence is under appreciated. He pretty much invented the detective story genre with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and his "Eureka: A Prose Poem" was early sci-fi that more or less invented the idea of the Big Bang.
on “Edgar Allan Poe's life was a mess. But his work was in his command” ↗