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The story is set in Paris, and the narrator, an anonymous American, describes his friendship with C. Auguste Dupin, an eccentric and brilliant analyst. After reading the news of a brutal double murder in the Rue Morgue – Madame L’Espanaye and her daughter, found dead in a locked room under bizarre circumstances – Dupin decides to solve the case. The victims were killed with extreme brutality: one was nearly decapitated, the other was suffocated and pushed down a chimney. The police are baffled, as there is no obvious motive, and witnesses mention a strange, unintelligible voice.