What makes a great story? Great characters? A fantastic plot? Whatever it is, it doesn't have as much time to develop as a novel. However, in a limited space, author Edgar Allan Poe creates a brilliant, suspenseful, and shocking story. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" begins by comparing the analytical mind to the game of chess. Ultimately, Poe connects the events of a freak accident with a flashback to the 18th--. Through scene analysis and the use of clues and witness testimony, a character of great analytical power solves a murder mystery that no one else can even remotely understand. At first the story may seem ordinary, but once the novel is completed, a doubtful reader may change his mind. Edgar Allan Poe's use of different literary and writing techniques and his unique development of the story allow readers to indulge in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." The story is set in the first person where an unnamed narrator serves as a character who exists for the sole reason of illustrating the capabilities of Dupin's mind. Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin is the main solver of the story, a gentleman from an aristocratic family but reduced to poverty. As the narrator tells the story, some thought processes are kept hidden from the reader until L'Auguste Dupin reveals the facts. The reader sees and knows only the facts that the detectives and narrators do. In this way, the story creates more suspense for the reader and the conclusion takes him by surprise. The narrative is divided into paragraphs of varying lengths, which contain long, detailed sentences. And......middle of paper......other maybe taken out and killed. However, Dupin came to the conclusion that no man could have contained the agility and strength necessary to carry out the crimes he witnessed. He concluded that an Ourang Outang had escaped and killed the women. The funniest part of the story was that Dupin's crazy deduction was accurate and correct. The French sailor was the owner of an Ourang Outang who had thrown the older woman out of a window and her daughter up a chimney. Poe's new writing style at the time allowed readers to see mystery stories from a different perspective, that of the detective. His writing techniques and the plot of the story make "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" an enjoyable and useful work.