Datails The Murders in the Rue Morgue

 The Murders in the Rue Morgue

1.               When did the narrator first meet Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin?

      They met in a bookshop when they both searched for the same rare book in Paris.

2.               Why did the police often ask Dupin for help them solve mysteries?

Because his skill and talent for putting facts together and finding logical explanations for difficult situations.

3.               Why did Dr. Dumas think the murderer was a man?

He thought so because no woman would have been strong enough to cause such injuries.

4.               What facts made it difficult to solve the case?

The voices that were heard; the fact that no one was found upstairs;  the windows which were all locked without possibility to escape and the terrible violence of the murder.

5.               The witnesses agreed that the deep voice belonged to a Frenchman, but they did not agree about the high voice. What was peculiar about the high voice?

It was that an Englishman, a Dutchman, a Spaniard and a Frenchman all described the voice as the voice of a foreigner.

6.                What did Dupin find when he examined the two windows?

      That the window probably closed on its own after the murderer climbed out.

7.               What did Dupin discover about the hair found in Madame L’Espanaye’s   hand and fingerprints found on Camille’s neck?

That this is not human hair and these marks were not  made by a human hand.

8.               Why Dupin stop at a newspaper office on his way home?

He was waiting for someone who would come. The sailor.

9.               Who was the murderer?

An Orang-utang owned by a sailor.

10.         How the murderer enter Madame L’Espanaye’s bedroom?

       It climbed up the lightning-rod with great agility grasped the shutter and swung into the room.

11.         What happened to the murderer?

         It was sold it to the zoo for a great deal of money.