In Poe’s detective stories, crimes are always happened on a small scale such as old house, isolated outskirts, or a river with nobody passing. These all colure the stories, and become an important element of Poe’s detective stories. In The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the atrocity happened in a room of an old house with the doors and windows close. In The Mystery of Marie Roget, the crime also happened in a secluded area. Marie Roget’s corpse was found floating in the Seine near the shore which is opposite to the Quartier of the Rue Saint Andre, and at a point not very far distant from the secluded neighborhood of the Barriere du Roule. Because the crime solving in detective stories depends on the detectives’ logical analysis, these small-scale