Edgar Allan Poe — Part 3: The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Edgar Allan Poe — Part 3: The Murders in the Rue Morgue | KacheliTV World Classics mitroFun's Poe season continues with the tale that began detective fiction. In Paris, in a house in the Rue Morgue, Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter are found murdered — in a room on the fourth story, locked from the inside, its windows nailed down, its chimney too narrow for escape, and no murderer anywhere to be found. The police have the facts and cannot read them. But the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin — the analyst we met at the end of Part One — treats the case as an exercise of the mind: the voices the witnesses heard and could not place, the hair that is not human hair, the strength no ordinary man possesses. Poe published "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841; every detective who has followed since walks in Dupin's shadow. The tale is told whole. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 02:16 The Murders in the Rue Morgue The tale is told whole and complete, as written. Poe's two bracketed asides within the tale — his note on the word "affaire" in the newspaper report, and the narrator's aside on Dupin's word "amusement" — are read aloud in place, and Poe's own closing footnote (the Rousseau reference) is read in place, announced by the word "Footnote.". The epigraph from Sir Thomas Browne is read as printed. Music: 'Gangster Piano Symphony' (instrumental) opens and closes the programme, and 'Waltz for One Double Bass' (instrumental) runs as a quiet background bed under the reading. Source: Edgar Allan Poe, tale of 1841, from Project Gutenberg eBook #25525 (The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition), public domain. Recorded for KacheliTV. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.