Edgar Alan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue (26th October – 4th November 2023)

Edgar Allan Poe –The Murders in the Rue MorgueAdapted and Written by James NicholasClick Here for the Virtual ProgrammeThe original detective story.Two women are found brutally murdered in their Parisian home in the Rue Morgue – one body, virtually decapitated, the other the ust head downwards up a chimney. The Police, baffled by the apparent lack of any possible egress by the killers, strange voices heard just after the blood-curdling screams of the woman and the lack of a motive – not for the murders themselves but for the savage nature of the crime – arrest a seemingly innocent man. In steps C. August Dupin to investigate the seemingly impossible events.In Dupin, Edgar Alan Poe created the first modern detective upon which all others were based including: Sherlock Holmes, Arsene Lupin, Miss Marple and even Jessica Fletcher.