Monday Night Classics
This month's selection is The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe. This is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his tales of "ratiocination," his concept of analyzing a fictional crime to find the resolution.
Poe's amateur detective, C. Auguste Dupin, takes an interest in the murder in Paris of two women. It was terribly brutal but difficult to categorize; there appeared to be no robbery or sexual assault, no obvious reason for the crimes. Dupin gets involved because the man arrested for the crimes, Monsieur Le Bon, had previously done him a favor. It becomes a challenge to Dupin.
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