The Investigation

"I know not," continued Dupin, "what impression I may have made, so far, upon your own understanding; but I do not hesitate to say that legitimate deductions even from this portion of the testimony—the portion respecting the gruff and shrill voices—are in themselves sufficient to engender a suspicion which should give direction to all farther progress in the investigation of the mystery. I said 'legitimate deductions;' but my meaning is not thus fully expressed. I designed to imply that the deductions are the sole proper ones, and that the suspicion arises inevitably from them as the single result. What the suspicion is, however, I will not say just yet. I merely wish you to bear in mind that, with myself, it was sufficiently forcible to give a definite form—a certain tendency—to my inquiries in the chamber.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Murders in the Rue Morgue es un cuento de Edgar Allan Poe publicado en 1841. Ha sido descripto como la primera historia moderna de detectives. Dupin resuelve el misterio del brutal asesinato de dos mujeres.

Todos los testigos escucharon diferentes idiomas: podría haber sido en castellano, inglés, francés o ruso. No coinciden entre ellos. Era una voz gruesa. Más abajo unos párrafos de la historia en inglés.

En vocabulario encontramos outré, gruff, y denizens.