The story surrounds the double murder of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter in the Rue Morgue, a fictional street in Paris. Newspaper accounts of the murder reveal that the mother's neck was very deeply cut, and when they tried to lift her, the head fell off and the dead body of the daughter, head downwards and it was difficult to pull the body out because the chimney was so narrow. The murderers occur in an inaccessible room on the fourth floor locked from the inside. Chairs and tables were broken and lay in pieces everywhere, on the floor were two bags, which contained nearly four thousand francs in gold. Neighbours who hear the murder give contradictory accounts, claiming they hear the murderer speaking a different language.
The first investigation conducted by the brigade of investigations, do not give any results, demonstrating the impotence of the police to clarify the facts.
Mr Dupin and his friend, the unnamed narrator of the story, read these newspaper accounts with interest. Mr Dupin decides to investigate on his own and after intense and brilliant research, offers an extraordinary explanation.
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario