"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story with a murder mystery theme with the protagonist being Dupin, who sifts through puzzles and clues to unravel the mystery and make sense of what most cannot. The narrator is Dupin's friend, not Dupin himself, a move which keeps the reader out of Dupin's head and gives him an air of mystery.
             Dupin and the narrator, his housemate, come upon a newspaper headline about the Rue Morgue murders. The article details what is known of the situation. The Rue Morgue's neighbors hear shrieks by two voices, one deep and one high, followed by silence. When the police arrive on the scene. There are multiple signs of murder such as blood and hair. The corpse of Mademoiselle Camille is found in the chimney while her mother, the only other inhabitant of the apartment they found in a courtyard badly beaten into an almost unrecognizable state. The man the police arrest for the crime is Dupin's friend, so naturally he becomes interested and searches the crime scene with permission.
             Dupin has many different thoughts on the case from police. The police say there was no way out from the inside, while Dupin finds a loose nail on a window indicating it could be used for entry and escape. Dupin also says that one of the voices gender or nationality could not be known since there were no actual words uttered from it. He also surmises that the entry to the apartment and the beating of the mother meant that the suspect surely possessed inhuman strength. That thought, coupled with the fact that the mother was clutching hair in her palm that was not human give the reader very strong clues of where this is going. Dupin is almost sure that the suspect not human and all but confirms it when he finds that the hand that did these crimes was the size of an ourang-outang.
             Dupin calls for the animal to be captured hoping to have it brought to him, which the owner does. T...