This work begins with a discourse on the superiority of whist to chess for the analytical mind. After the narrator meets the main character in a bookstore, the two decide to live together on the Faubourg St. Germain. The bank clerk Le Bon is wrongfully imprisoned, but the main character solves the problem of entry and exit by examining the rusted head of a nail near a window. A Maltese sailor recently returned from Borneo provides the details of the crime when he answers an ad for a lost orangutan. For 10 points—identify this Edgar Allen Poe tale about C. Auguste Dupin
This work begins with a discourse on the superiority of whist to chess for the analytical mind. After the narrator meets the main character in a bookstore, the two decide to live together on the Faubourg St. Germain. The bank clerk Le Bon is wrongfully imprisoned, but the main character solves the problem of entry and exit by examining the rusted head of a nail near a window. A Maltese sailor recently returned from Borneo provides the details of the crime when he answers an ad for a lost orangutan. For 10 points—identify this Edgar Allen Poe tale about C. Auguste Dupin and his solving of a crime on the title street.
This work begins with a discourse on the superiority of whist to chess for the analytical mind.