Often subtitled A Sequel to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” C. Auguste Dupin and his assistant, the unnamed narrator, undertake the unsolved murder of Marie Rogêt in Paris. The body of Rogêt, a perfume shop employee, is found in the Seine. Dupin uses newspaper reports to get into the mind of the murderer. Dupin determines that a single murderer was involved, probably a sailor, who dragged the victim by the cloth belt around her waist at first, then switched to a cloth around her neck, before dumping the body off a boat into the river. Finding the boat, Dupin suggests, will lead the police to the murderer. An “editor’s note” states that it would be inappropriate to relate details of what followed, but that the police did apprehend the true murderer with the help of Dupin’s deductions.
Description Often subtitled A Sequel to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” C. Auguste Dupin and his assistant, the unnamed narrator, undertake the unsolved murder of Marie Rogêt in Paris. The body of Rogêt, a perfume shop employee, is found in the Seine. Dupin uses newspaper reports to get into the mind of the murderer. Dupin determines that a single murderer was involved, probably a sailor, who dragged the victim by the cloth belt around her waist at first, then switched to a cloth around her neck, before dumping the body off a boat into the river. Finding the boat, Dupin suggests, will lead the police to the murderer. An “editor’s note” states that it would be inappropriate to relate details of what followed, but that the police did apprehend the true murderer with the help of Dupin’s deductions.
