What one reviewer said about The Mystery of Marie Roget by Edgar Allan Poe:
In this story, Poe reintroduces his famous detective, M. Dupin. In fact, we cannot say that in "The mistery of Marie Roget" Dupin is a proper detective. Here we can see that he is one man with the most accute perception and thinking.
Through a series of newspaper clippings, Dupin and his friend, the narrator, are able to bring to light the mysterious murder of a young parisian girl. At times, though, Poe's style of writing seems a bit confusing, and I had to go back some paragraphs to fully understand Dupin's arguments and way of thinking. As happens with "The murders at Rue Morgue", here Poe is writing the beggining of the detective stories, but in "The mistery of Marie Roget" sometimes I had to disagree with Dupin's arguments, they just seemed a little bit too confusing and directerd the way he wanted things to seem.
Anyway, Poe was a master of rethoric and misty writing, and this story is another example of his great talent.
Grade 8.6/10
This is a sequel to The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Begins:
THERE are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half-credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them. Such sentiments - for the half-credences of which I speak have never the full force of thought - such sentiments are seldom thoroughly stifled unless by reference to the doctrine of chance, or, as it is technically termed, the Calculus of Probabilities. Now this Calculus is, in its essence, purely mathematical; and thus we have the anomaly of the most rigidly exact in science applied to the shadow and spirituality of the most intangible in speculation.
I found "The Mystery of Marie Roget" a bit confusing at times as detective Auguste Dupin seems more like a solving machine than a person. Also, the story has no solution. It always says that they has skipped parts for "obvious reasons" (a.k.a. length) but it leaves out the part where it tells you who the murderer is! If anyone knows who commited the murder in the story please post it on the comments. It is driving me crazy!
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