'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' by Edgar Allen Poe, Part Two — VOA Learning English
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We present the second of five parts of the short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," by Edgar Allen Poe. The story was originally adapted and recorded by VOA Learning English.
It was in Paris in the summer of 1840 that I met August Dupin.
Dupin was a strangely interesting young man with a busy, forceful mind. He seemed to look right through a person and uncover their deepest thoughts. Sometimes Dupin seemed to be not one, but two people — one who coldly put things together, and another who just as coldly took them apart. One morning, in the heat of the summer, Dupin showed me once again his special mental power.
We read in the newspaper about a terrible killing. An old woman and her…
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