The crime in this story is quite famously drawn on a real unsolved case that had occurred several years before Poe wrote this. Instead they will be armchair detectives, gleaning and then reinterpreting the facts given in the reports appearing in the city’s newspapers. One significant difference between this and the other two Dupin stories is that both the narrator and sleuth do not at any point leave their sitting room to investigate the crime. It is also narrated by the same nameless friend of Dupin who is still in awe of his friend’s ability to use ratiocination to logically work through and posit explanations for crimes. Like its predecessor, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt is more of a long short story than a novella. I don’t know if I can promise that my thoughts are all that more coherent than they would have been a year ago though… Well, this week I decided to go ahead and read it again so the story is now fresh in my mind. Unfortunately that was right about the time real life got in the way of my blogging and by the time I was ready to write about it, the memories had faded too much to put anything accurate or coherent together. At that time I had every expectation I would blog about all three stories and actually read this one in preparation for that. It first appeared in Snowden’s Ladies’ Companion in three installments, November and December 1842 and February 1843.Ī little over a year ago I wrote about the first of Edgar Allan Poe’s three Dupin mysteries, The Murders in the Rue Morgue. This is the first murder mystery based on the details of a real crime. Preceded by The Murders in the Rue Morgue This story is one of those contained within the collection Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
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