STAUNTON — When Davey White first read Edgar Allan Poe’s short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the two main characters — the narrator and C. Auguste Dupin — inspired him to create a ...

In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.

Thus is born, in Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the world's first sleuth, and the first story of detective fiction. Poe's focus on the gruesome nature of crimes ⁠— and the ...

His short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) is considered to be one of the first examples of a detective story. Are mid-way in length between short stories and a full-length novel.

Sin City Gigolo: A Murder in Las Vegas: Season 1 ...