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The Mystery of Marie Rogêt — обложка книги
Дата написания1970-01-01
Язык книгиen
Возрастное ограничение12+
Темы
американская литератураамериканская классика

Описание

Книга рассказывает о расследовании убийства Марии Рогет, где детектив анализирует доказательства и приходит к выводу о единственном убийце, а также раскрывает, как роман основан на реальном деле и использует реальные источники.

Главный конфликт / проблема

Убийство Марии Рогет и определение виновного

Ключевые идеи

  • Идеальная цепочка событий редко совпадает с реальностью, что усложняет расследование.
  • Критический анализ одежды и следов борьбы позволяет исключить групповой характер преступления.
  • Наличие потенциального морского подозреваемого подчёркивает необходимость дальнейшего поиска.
  • Примечания добавлены для подтверждения достоверности сюжета и связи с реальным убийством.
  • Автор использовал только газетные источники, так как не мог лично исследовать место преступления.
  • Поздние признания подтвердили точность описанных деталей.

Вывод

Книга приводит к выводу, что преступление совершил один человек, а роман подтверждает свою достоверность через реальные источники

Кому полезна

  • Любители детективной литературы
  • Криминалисты
  • Историки
  • Студенты литературы

Главные темы

  • Расследование преступления
  • Методология криминалистического анализа
  • Историческая достоверность литературы

Персонажи

  • Marie Roget — Молодая женщина, дочь Эстелл, работала у парфюмера Ле Блан. Двух раз исчезла, вторая раз привела к обнаружению её тела в реке. Она основана на реальной Марии Келси Рогерс, убитой в окрестностях Нью‑Йорка.
  • Сент-Естаче — Обручённый Марии, первоначально подозреваемый в убийстве, но доказан невиновен.
  • Беувез — Тот, кто нашёл тело в реке и дал показания о его состоянии.
  • Дюпин — Помогает автору в расследовании, анализирует доказательства и предлагает логический подход.
  • Марс Делюк — Отмечает присутствие «плохих парней» и их поведение, но её свидетельство не подтверждает групповой характер преступления.
  • чёрный мужчина (море́йка) — Отсутствует в следствии, возможно, скрывается от подозрений.
  • Эстелл Рогет — Вдова, родитель Марии, участвовала в поисках и расследовании.
  • Ле Блан — Парфюмер, где Мария работала, предоставлял информацию о её работе.
  • Madame Delue — Свидетель, чьи признания позже подтвердили гипотезу автора.
  • Von Hardenburg — Автор использовал этот псевдоним при публикации.
  • Anderson — Участник расследования, упомянутый в источниках.
  • Payne — Участник расследования, упомянутый в источниках.

Цитаты

  • Повествование о расследовании убийства молодой женщины Марии Рогет, её исчезновении, находке тела в Сене и попытках раскрыть дело, включая роль Дюпина, газетных публикаций и сомнений в идентификации тела.
  • Публикации в газетах (L'Etoile, Le Commerciel, Le Soleil) предлагают различные теории: тело не Мария, убийство совершено бандой разбойников, а также сомнения в апатии родственников.
  • Были доказательства, как говорится, борьбы; земля была поросну, кусты разрушены…
  • Платок использовался полностью, демонстрируя, что необходимость его использования возникла из обстоятельств, возникших в момент, когда платок больше не был доступен.
  • «При первоначальной публикации «Марии Рогет» примечания, теперь прилагаемые, считались ненужными; но прошедшие годы после трагедии делают их целесообразными…»
  • «Теория, основанная на качествах объекта, не позволит раскрыть его по его объектам; и тот, кто упорядочивает темы по их причинам, перестанет ценить их по результатам…» — Ландор

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1809–1849. Edgar Allan Poe. американский писатель, поэт, литературный критик и редактор (1809—1849)

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In this way the journal endeavored to create the impression of an apathy on the part of the relatives of Marie, inconsistent with the supposition that these relatives believed the corpse to be hers. Its insinuations amount to this:—that Marie, with the connivance of her friends, had absented herself from the city for reasons involving a charge against her chastity; and that these friends, upon the discovery of a corpse in the Seine, somewhat resembling that of the girl, had availed themselves of the opportunity to impress the public with the belief of her death. But L'Etoile was again over-hasty. It was distinctly proved that no apathy, such as was imagined, existed; that the old lady was exceedingly feeble, and so agitated as to be unable to attend to any duty, that St. Eustache, so far from receiving the news coolly, was distracted with grief, and bore himself so frantically, that M. Beauvais prevailed upon a friend and relative to take charge of him, and prevent his attending the examination at the disinterment. Moreover, although it was stated by L'Etoile, that the corpse was re-interred at the public expense—that an advantageous offer of private sepulture was absolutely declined by the family—and that no member of the family attended the ceremonial:—although, I say, all this was asserted by L'Etoile in furtherance of the impression it designed to convey—yet all this was satisfactorily disproved. In a subsequent number of the paper, an attempt was made to throw suspicion upon Beauvais himself. The editor says:

"Now, then, a change comes over the matter. We are told that on one occasion, while a Madame B—— was at Madame Rogêt's house, M. Beauvais, who was going out, told her that a gendarme was expected there, and she, Madame B., must not say anything to the gendarme until he returned, but let the matter be for him. * * * * In the present posture of affairs, M. Beauvais appears to have the whole matter looked up in his head. A single step cannot be taken without M. Beauvais; for, go which way you will, you run against him. * * * * * For some reason, he determined that nobody shall have any thing to do with the proceedings but himself, and he has elbowed the male relatives out of the way, according to their representations, in a very singular manner. He seems to have been very much averse to permitting the relatives to see the body."

By the following fact, some color was given to the suspicion thus thrown upon Beauvais . A visiter at his office, a few days prior to the girl's disappearance, and during the absence of its occupant, had observed a rose in the key-hole of the door, and the name "Marie " inscribed upon a slate which hung near at hand.

The general impression, so far as we were enabled to glean it from the newspapers, seemed to be, that Marie had been the of a gang of desperadoes—that by these she had been borne across the river, maltreated and murdered. Le Commerciel,[11] however, a print of extensive influence, was earnest in combating this popular idea. I quote a passage or two from its columns:

"We are persuaded that pursuit has hitherto been on a false scent, so far as it has been directed to the Barrière du Roule. It is impossible that a person so well known to thousands as this young woman was, should have passed three blocks without some one having seen her; and any one who saw her would have remembered it, for she interested all who knew her. It was when the streets were full of people, when she went out. * * * It is impossible that she could have gone to the Barrière du Roule, or to the Rue des Drômes, without being recognized by a dozen persons; yet no one has come forward who saw her outside of her mother's door, and there is no evidence, except the testimony concerning her expressed intentions , that she did go out at all. Her gown was torn, bound round her, and tied; and by that the body was carried as a bundle. If the murder had been committed at the Barrière du Roule, there would have been no necessity for any such arrangement. The fact that the body was found floating near the Barrière, is no proof as to where it was thrown into the water. * * * * * A piece of one of the unfortunate girl's petticoats, two feet long and one foot wide, was torn out and tied under her chin around the back of her head, probably to prevent screams. This was done by fellows who had no pocket-handkerchief."

A day or two before the Prefect called upon us, however, some important information reached the police, which seemed to overthrow, at least, the chief portion of Le Commerciel's argument. Two small boys, sons of a Madame Deluc, while roaming among the woods near the Barrière du Roule, chanced to penetrate a close thicket, within which were three or four large stones, forming a kind of seat, with a back and footstool. On the upper stone lay a white petticoat; on the second a silk scarf. A parasol, gloves, and a pocket-handkerchief were also here found. The handkerchief bore the name "Marie Rogêt." Fragments of dress were discovered on the brambles around. The earth was trampled, the bushes were broken, and there was every evidence of a struggle. Between the thicket and the river, the fences were found taken down, and the ground bore evidence of some heavy burthen having been dragged along it.

A weekly paper, Le Soleil,[12] had the following comments upon this discovery—comments which merely echoed the sentiment of the whole Parisian press:

"The things had all evidently been there at least three or four weeks; they were all mildewed down hard with the action of the rain and stuck together from mildew. The grass had grown around and over some of them. The silk on the parasol was strong, but the threads of it were run together within. The upper part, where it had been doubled and folded, was all mildewed and rotten, and tore on its being opened. * * * * The pieces of her frock torn out by the bushes were about three inches wide and six inches long. One part was the hem of the frock, and it had been mended; the other piece was part of the skirt, not the hem. They looked like strips torn off, and were on the thorn bush, about a foot from the ground. * * * * * There can be no doubt, therefore, that the spot of this appalling outrage has been discovered."

Consequent upon this discovery, new evidence appeared. Madame Deluc testified that she keeps a roadside inn not far from the bank of the river, opposite the Barrière du Roule. The neighborhood is secluded—particularly so. It is the usual Sunday resort of blackguards from the city, who cross the river in boats. About three o'clock, in the afternoon of the Sunday in question, a young girl arrived at the inn, accompanied by a young man of dark complexion. The two remained here for some time. On their departure, they took the road to some thick woods in the vicinity. Madame Deluc's attention was called to the dress worn by the girl, on account of its resemblance to one worn by a deceased relative. A scarf was particularly noticed. Soon after the departure of the couple, a gang of miscreants made their appearance, behaved boisterously, ate and drank without making payment, followed in the route of the young man and girl, returned to the inn about dusk, and re-crossed the river as if in great haste.

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