Murders in the Rue Morgue, Plot Summary

Plot summary of Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” In Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” a mystery, that at first seems too complex to solve, is ultimately disentangled by a detective’s reliance on analytical reasoning. The narrator, along with his friend, the protagonist, detective C. Auguste Dupin, become fascinated in a newspaper article about two gruesome murders. The victims, Madame L’Espanaya and her daughter Camille, were murdered …showed first 75 words of 731 total…

…showed last 75 words of 731 total…that of a wild animal, and the agility needed to enter a fourth floor apartment could easily be accomplished by an ape. Through another clever move by the detective, the owner of the ape, a gruff-voiced Frenchman, visits the two men at their home where he illustrates the events that led to the brutal murders. At last, the mystery is solved; the escaped beast is apprehended, and the wrongly accused LeBon, is released from jail.