Track | Section | Length |
01 | 01 - Section 1 | 32:11 |
02 | 02 - Section 2 | 33:02 |
03 | 03 - Section 3 | 35:00 |
Production
Book Coordinator: Phil Chenevert
Meta Coordinator: Phil Chenevert
Proof Listener: DaveC
Artwork
Cover: Byam Shaw's illustration for The Murders in the Rue Morgue in "Selected Tales of Mystery", 1909
Inset: Colored lobby card for the 1932 film Murders in the Rue Morgue, featuring Bela Lugosi, 1932, Universal Studios
Inset: Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe, known as the "Annie" Daguerreotype, 1849, author unknown
Insert: Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", 1894-1895
The Murders in the Rue Morgue is considered the first detective story. Published in Graham’s Magazine in 1841, it is in Poe’s words a “tale of ratiocination” that displays the awesome powers of deduction possessed by the brilliant detective C. Auguste Dupin. The narrator is a friend who lives with Dupin in seclusion. Dupin becomes intrigued by a double murder of a woman and her daughter in the Rue Morgue of Paris. He offers his services to the prefect of police when a bank clerk is arrested despite a total lack of evidence.Examination of the bodies of the victims and evidence at the crime scene leads Dupin to a couple of quick deductions: first, no gold was taken, so the motive was not robbery, and, second, the superhuman strength required to stuff one body up a chimney and a strange tuft of hair suggest the killer was not human. An ad placed in the newspaper regarding a missing orangutan gets a response from a sailor who has lost just such a creature. His account of the escape of the animal is sufficient to explain everything. The story is a masterpiece that set the template for many tales to follow, featuring the likes of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, accompanied by a narrator, and featuring a final revelation followed by an explication of the reasoning.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0701236969870 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0687700169796 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD box, CD jacket, security sleeve, download |
Author | Edgar Allan Poe (1810 - 1849) |
Recording | |
Read by | Phil Chenevert |
Length | 1 hour and 40 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Product Code: DB-1267
- Availability: In Stock
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