| 词汇 | detective |
| 词源 | detective. The first detective can be found in any complete edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, where resides the Poe tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841–42), the first of all detective stories, a new genre Poe invented. In Paris lives Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin, a French genius of unsurpassed intellectual prowess. Dupin chances to read an account of the brutal mur- ders of Mme L’Espanaye and her daughter Camille in their fourth-story apartment in the Rue Morgue. The police are un- able to solve this bloody crime, but Dupin puts his genius to the task. After considering the murderer’s brutal strength, his unintelligible voice, his great climbing agility, and his lack of motive, Dupin deduces that the murderer must be an ape. Sure enough, a sailor visits Dupin, responding to an advertisement he places in the papers. The sailor had brought an orangutan to Paris, hoping to sell it, and the ape had escaped and committed the murders. The ape is at last captured and the first tale of rati- ocination is done. |
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