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 …

…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.