Murders In The Rue Morgue

C. Auguste Dupin’s crime-solving skill sin Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” establishes for the readers the traits that make a good detective. Dupin’s analytical skills and superior abilities are highlighted when he outsmarts the police force out of their own profession and solves the “insoluble mystery” that. In spite of the fact that Dupin’s expertise is more heavily emphasized, his rather subtle negative qualities and anti-social personality do not go amiss by readers. Perhaps, Poe deliberately portrays Dupin with unemotional and distant approach in crime solving, as these negative traits are what helps Dupin to become a great detective.
The murder of Madame L’Espanaye and her daughter Camille is described as a mystery

At the beginning, it is understood that he seldom goes out during the day and he only walks around the Parisian streets late in the evening, observing the people around him on the street. Although Dupin keeps to himself and does not directly interacting with people, this actually prevents him from being restrained to social norms. One way Dupin is different from the police is that he readily accepts things that seems abnormal and strives to find out the cause or make educated guesses. Contrastingly, the police are not quite adapted to handling cases that are more unusual. In the crime scene, a large amount of cash and jewelry are founded in the house untouched so theft does not seem to be a motive for this crime. This leads to the puzzlement of the police as they are “confounded by the seeming absence of motive” despite the “atrocity of the murder”. As Dupin has said, the police have “fallen into the gross but common error of confounding the unusual with the abstruse”. When the police find themselves dealing with cases out of the ordinary, they do not know what elements to inspect in order to solve the case. Dupin does not face this problem, as he is not bound by the conventional thinking and is able to think outside the box. The narrator also put emphasis on this particular mindset of Dupin when he feels “my [narrator’s] soul enkindled … by the vivid freshness of his imagination”. Although the possibility that the murderer of the two victims is in fact an orangutan seems small, Dupin is not astonished and calmly accepts the fact that the murderer may not be a human at