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Who committed the murders in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”?
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe.
In the short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," written by Edgar Allan Poe, the murders are committed by an escaped orangutan.12
The protagonist, C. Auguste Dupin, identifies the animal as the culprit by using his powers of logic and ratiocination to analyze the seemingly impossible crime scene, where the victims were found in an apartment that appeared to be sealed from the inside.1