Spoiler: the killer isn’t human. It’s an escaped orangutan mimicking violence it had seen.
Poe’s twist was unheard of in 1841 — and showed the power of rational thought in untangling chaos.
Rue Morgue didn’t just solve a crime — it redefined how stories could think.
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Long before Sherlock Holmes, there was C. Auguste Dupin. Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling 1841 tale didn’t just solve a brutal double murder — it invented the modern detective genre. Here’s what made it unforgettable.
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