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The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

Автор Эдгар Аллан По
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Дата написания1970-01-01
Язык книгиen
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Жанры
классические детективы
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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It was soon after dark, upon this same evening, that Madame Deluc, as well as her eldest son, heard the screams of a female in the vicinity of the inn. The screams were violent but brief. Madame D. recognized not only the scarf which was found in the thicket, but the dress which was discovered upon the corpse. An omnibus driver, Valence,[13] now also testified that he saw Marie Rogêt cross a ferry on the Seine , on the Sunday in question, in company with a young man of dark complexion. He, Valence , knew Marie, and could not be mistaken in her identity. The articles found in the thicket were fully identified by the relatives of Marie.

The items of evidence and information thus collected by myself, from the newspapers, at the suggestion of Dupin, embraced only one more point—but this was a point of seemingly vast consequence. It appears that, immediately after the discovery of the clothes as above described, the lifeless, or nearly lifeless body of St. Eustache , Marie's betrothed, was found in the vicinity of what all now supposed the scene of the outrage. A phial labelled "laudanum," and emptied, was found near him. His breath gave evidence of the poison. He died without speaking. Upon his person was found a letter, briefly stating his love for Marie, with his design of self-destruction.

"I need scarcely tell you," said Dupin, as he finished the perusal of my notes, "that this is a far more intricate case than that of the Rue Morgue; from which it differs in one important respect. This is an ordinary , although an atrocious instance of crime. There is nothing peculiarly outré about it. You will observe that, for this reason, the mystery has been considered easy, when, for this reason, it should have been considered difficult, of solution. Thus, at first, it was thought unnecessary to offer a reward. The myrmidons of G—— were able at once to comprehend how and why such an atrocity might have been committed. They could picture to their imaginations a mode—many modes—and a motive—many motives; and because it was not impossible that either of these numerous modes and motives could have been the actual one, they have taken it for granted that one of them must . But the case with which these variable fancies were entertained, and the very plausibility which each assumed, should have been understood as indicative rather of the difficulties than of the facilities which must attend elucidation. I have before observed that it is by prominences above the plane of the ordinary, that reason feels her way, if at all, in her search for the true, and that the proper question in cases such as this, is not so much 'what has occurred?' as 'what has occurred that has never occurred before?' In the investigations at the house of Madame L'Espanaye,[14] the agents of G—— were discouraged and confounded by that very unusualness which, to a properly regulated intellect, would have afforded the surest omen of success; while this same intellect might have been plunged in despair at the ordinary character of all that met the eye in the case of the perfumery-girl, and yet told of nothing but easy triumph to the functionaries of the Prefecture.

"In the case of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter there was, even at the beginning of our investigation, no doubt that murder had been committed. The idea of suicide was excluded at once. Here, too, we are freed, at the commencement, from all supposition of self-murder. The body found at the Barrière du Roule, was found under such circumstances as to leave us no room for embarrassment upon this important point. But it has been suggested that the corpse discovered, is not that of the Marie Rogêt for the conviction of whose assassin, or assassins, the reward is offered, and respecting whom, solely, our agreement has been arranged with the Prefect. We both know this gentleman well. It will not do to trust him too far. If, dating our inquiries from the body found, and thence tracing a murderer, we yet discover this body to be that of some other individual than Marie; or, if starting from the living Marie, we find her, yet find her unassassinated—in either case we lose our labor; since it is Monsieur G—— with whom we have to deal. For our own purpose, therefore, if not for the purpose of justice, it is indispensable that our first step should be the determination of the identity of the corpse with the Marie Rogêt who is missing.

"With the public the arguments of L'Etoile have had weight; and that the journal itself is convinced of their importance would appear from the manner in which it commences one of its essays upon the subject—'Several of the morning papers of the day,' it says, 'speak of the conclusive article in Monday's Etoile.' To me, this article appears conclusive of little beyond the zeal of its inditer. We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation—to make a point—than to further the cause of truth. The latter end is only pursued when it seems coincident with the former. The print which merely falls in with ordinary opinion (however well founded this opinion may be) earns for itself no credit with the mob. The mass of the people regard as profound only him who suggests pungent contradictions of the general idea. In ratiocination, not less than in literature, it is the epigram which is the most immediately and the most universally appreciated. In both, it is of the lowest order of merit.

"What I mean to say is, that it is the mingled epigram and melodrame of the idea, that Marie Rogêt still lives, rather than any true plausibility in this idea, which have suggested it to L'Etoile, and secured it a favorable reception with the public. Let us examine the heads of this journal's argument; endeavoring to avoid the incoherence with which it is originally set forth.

"The first aim of the writer is to show, from the brevity of the interval between Marie's disappearance and the finding of the floating corpse, that this corpse cannot be that of Marie. The reduction of this interval to its smallest possible dimension, becomes thus, at once, an object with the reasoner. In the rash pursuit of this object, he rushes into mere assumption at the outset. 'It is folly to suppose,' he says, 'that the murder, if murder was committed on her body, could have been consummated soon enough to have enabled her murderers to throw the body into the river before midnight.' We demand at once, and very naturally, why? Why is it folly to suppose that the murder was committed within five minutes after the girl's quitting her mother's house? Why is it folly to suppose that the murder was committed at any given period of the day? There have been assassinations at all hours. But, had the murder taken place at any moment between nine o'clock in the morning of Sunday, and a quarter before midnight, there would still have been time enough 'to throw the body into the river before midnight.' This assumption, then, amounts precisely to this—that the murder was not committed on Sunday at all—and, if we allow L'Etoile to assume this, we may permit it any liberties whatever. The paragraph beginning 'It is folly to suppose that the murder, etc.,' however it appears as printed in L'Etoile, may be imagined to have existed actually thus in the brain of its inditer—'It is folly to suppose that the murder, if murder was committed on the body, could have been committed soon enough to have enabled her murderers to throw the body into the river before midnight; it is folly, we say, to suppose all this, and to suppose at the same time, (as we are resolved to suppose,) that the body was not thrown in until after midnight'—a sentence sufficiently inconsequential in itself, but not so utterly preposterous as the one printed.

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