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Los crímenes de la calle Morgue

Name: Los crímenes de la calle Morgue
Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Título en inglés: The Murders in the Rue Morgue

de Edgar Allan Poe · lectura graduada

5 capítulos
9891 palabras
unos 76 min

En una tranquila calle de París, dos mujeres son encontradas muertas en una habitación cerrada en el cuarto piso. Los vecinos escucharon dos voces, pero nadie pudo entender la segunda. La policía está perdida. Entonces, C. Auguste Dupin, un joven extraño que lee los pensamientos de las personas, decide examinar la habitación él mismo.

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Some people have a special kind of mind. They love puzzles, secret codes and difficult questions, and they enjoy solving them the way a strong man enjoys using his muscles. To other people, their answers seem almost like magic. But there is no magic in it. It is simply careful thinking.

A good chess player, for example, must pay close attention to every move. But a truly clever card player does much more than that. He watches the faces of the other players. He notices how each person holds his cards, and how he puts them down on the table. A quick look, a careless word or a nervous hand tells him something. After two or three rounds, he knows what cards everyone is holding, as if they had turned them face up. The important thing is not simply to look, but to know what to look for.