Project Gutenberg 2025-07-13 Public domain in the USA. 163 Poe, Edgar Allan 1809 1849 Poe, Edgar Allen Morgue kadun kauhu $aHelsinki :$bKustannusosakeyhtiö Ahjo, $c1920. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue Appears to be an abridged translation of: The murders in the Rue Morgue. Tuula Temonen and Tapio Riikonen "Morgue kadun kauhu" by Edgar Allan Poe is a detective short story written in the mid-19th century. The tale introduces the brilliant amateur sleuth C. Auguste Dupin and his unnamed companion as they apply acute reasoning to a grotesque double murder in Paris. Pioneering the locked-room mystery, it emphasizes observation, logic, and psychological insight over police routine. Expect a tense, cerebral inquiry with a macabre edge. The opening of the story begins with a Finnish biographical preface on Poe’s life, hardships, and artistic range, highlighting his influence on modern detective fiction. It then shifts to the narrator’s stay in Paris, his meeting with Dupin in a bookshop, their reclusive, nocturnal habits, and a striking display of Dupin’s mind-reading powers. A newspaper details the shocking Rue Morgue killings: a ransacked room, two women dead in inexplicable ways, and witnesses reporting a second, uncanny voice no one can place, leaving the police baffled and a messenger, Lebon, arrested. Dupin criticizes the investigation, secures access to the apartment, and proves a hidden window mechanism and the route of escape via shutters and a gas pipe. Weighing the inhuman strength and the unrecognizable “voice,” he infers a non-human culprit and places a newspaper notice to draw out the likely handler, then waits at home with the narrator to confront the visitor. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250607222010poe 1920 FI Reading ease score: 40.6 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Detective and mystery stories Dupin, C. Auguste (Fictitious character) -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Classics of Literature Category: American Literature 106921 2025-09-30T07:58:51.731275 text/html 114796 2025-09-30T07:58:56.700287 application/epub+zip 114452 2025-09-30T07:58:54.370320 application/epub+zip 105621 2025-09-30T07:58:53.307297 application/epub+zip 235926 2025-09-30T07:58:58.389283 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 228109 2025-09-30T07:58:56.078260 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 96041 2025-09-30T07:58:51.505422 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 76310 2025-07-13T14:11:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15973 2025-09-30T07:58:58.511259 application/rdf+xml 15132 2025-09-30T07:58:53.814322 image/jpeg 3836 2025-09-30T07:58:53.556287 image/jpeg 115103 2025-09-30T07:58:51.740345 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia