About halfway into this work, the narrator is instructed to recall the lead actor's height in a contemporary production of Crebillon's Xerxes by a gentleman he once met in a library at the Rue Montmartre. It compares the skills needed to succeed at chess with those required by whist and, at one point, reproduces a full excerpt from the Gazette des Tribunaux. It begins with a quote from Thomas Browne asserting that even the most puzzling questions are not beyond all conjecture and ends with a visit to the Prefect to secure the release of Adolphe Le Bon, who had been apprehended near the scene at Quartier St. Roch. It is through a process its author dubs "ratiocination" that the protagonist determines who was responsible for the mangled corps
About halfway into this work, the narrator is instructed to recall the lead actor's height in a contemporary production of Crebillon's Xerxes by a gentleman he once met in a library at the Rue Montmartre. It compares the skills needed to succeed at chess with those required by whist and, at one point, reproduces a full excerpt from the Gazette des Tribunaux. It begins with a quote from Thomas Browne asserting that even the most puzzling questions are not beyond all conjecture and ends with a visit to the Prefect to secure the release of Adolphe Le Bon, who had been apprehended near the scene at Quartier St. Roch. It is through a process its author dubs "ratiocination" that the protagonist determines who was responsible for the mangled corpses of a mother and daughter named L'Espanaye. While the story features a bevy of witnesses who attest to the culprit's nationality, the protagonist deduces that the true killer at the house on the titular street was a recently captured Orangutan. For 10 points, identify this 1841 short story that featured the debut of the detective C. Auguste Dupin, a work by Edgar Allan Poe.
About halfway into this work, the narrator is instructed to recall the lead actor's height in a contemporary production of Crebillon's Xerxes by a gentleman he once met in a library at the Rue Montmartre.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue