文档介绍：Detective: C. Auguste Dupin Narrator: “I” L ’ Espanaye Victims Camille L ’ Espanaye A sailor Many witnesses Dupin and I were walking one night down a long dirty street on the east side of the city. Not long after a conversation, we were reading an evening newspaper. The room was in great disorder, the furniture broken and thrown about in all directions There was a razor lay on the chair with blood Two or three handfuls of human hair lay near the fireplace There were four gold coins, an earring , three large spoons and two bags on the ground, and tow bags containing nearly 4000 gold coins. The drawers of a desk were open and seemed to have been searched, although many things still remained in them The fireplace was unusually dirty and much disturbed and the party found that the daughter was dragged form chimney ,and head downwards. The skin had broken. There were deep cuts on the face, and clear marks of fingernails around the neck The party found the body of the old lady, with her throat cut. In fact, it was so completely cut that the head fell off as soon as they tried to lift her Interrogatory ? The strange voice. ? How the murderer escaped from the building ? How the murderer had reached the ground ? The method of murder was very merciless. ? The strength. ? The pelage in the lady ’ s nail was not human hair ? The finger marks on the daughter ’ s throat were not human. · Amazing speed · Superhuman strength · Merciless rudeness · Murder without an y motive · The strange voice · The pelage was not human · The finger marks The murderer was not a human being A page from Cuvier ’ s book on the wild animals of the East Indian Islands It was a full description of a creature known as the orangutang. The great size, the strength and the behavior of this animal, including its tendency to copy others, are well known. Dupin handed me a paper, and I read this: CAUGHT In a Pairs park, early in th