A review by taliaissmart
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt by Edgar Allan Poe
1.0
HOW was this one published???
Dupin and his companion are on the case again, this time trying to figure out where a young Parisian girl disappeared to for the day and how she then ended up dead in the river. There is NO detective work done within this story. Dupin hears the evidence secondhand, reads some newspapers, analyzes them (in great, unnecessary detail) to the narrator, and then makes a guess at a possible circumstance for the crime. AND THEN THE STORY ENDS. There is NO RESOLUTION. The narrator casually reveals that Dupin's hunch led to the crime being solved, but the actual solution is never described.
This story had me bored, confused, and then very dissatisfied. While I remembered reading [b:The Murders in the Rue Morgue|3301759|The Murders in the Rue Morgue|Edgar Allan Poe|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1409105459s/3301759.jpg|18440614], this story completely disappeared from mind after my initial 2015 reading - this is incredibly unfortunate, because maybe if I had remembered it, I wouldn't have bothered with a reread.
Dupin and his companion are on the case again, this time trying to figure out where a young Parisian girl disappeared to for the day and how she then ended up dead in the river. There is NO detective work done within this story. Dupin hears the evidence secondhand, reads some newspapers, analyzes them (in great, unnecessary detail) to the narrator, and then makes a guess at a possible circumstance for the crime. AND THEN THE STORY ENDS. There is NO RESOLUTION. The narrator casually reveals that Dupin's hunch led to the crime being solved, but the actual solution is never described.
This story had me bored, confused, and then very dissatisfied. While I remembered reading [b:The Murders in the Rue Morgue|3301759|The Murders in the Rue Morgue|Edgar Allan Poe|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1409105459s/3301759.jpg|18440614], this story completely disappeared from mind after my initial 2015 reading - this is incredibly unfortunate, because maybe if I had remembered it, I wouldn't have bothered with a reread.