The tales of mystery and imagination, Poe, Edgar Allan
EDGAR ALLAN POETHE TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION
FROM THIS BOOK
THE MURDERS OF THE RUE MORGUE
AND
THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET
Summary
Dupin and Legrand were having a discussion about Orion and Chantilly in the evening, when their attention was drawn by news in the Gazette des Tribunaux. It was about extraordinary murders. That morning about three o’clock were the inhabitants of Quartier St. Roch roused by screams. The screams came from a house in the Rue Morgue, which was inhabited by Madam L’Espanaye and her daughter. Eight or ten men, who lived in the neighbourhood, with two cops forced the door and went in. When they ran up the stairs, they heard two voices, but when they came upstairs they did not see anybody, all they saw was a terrible mess. They found the daughter dead hanging up side down in the chimney and the mother was found outside with her throat cut and terrible bruises. Everything was turned over, but as far as they could see nothing was missing.
The next day the statements of the witnesses werein the paper:
Pauline Dubourg, washerwoman, has worked for three years for the lady. She said that mother and daughter were getting along very well and thought t