The Christmas Fire

1244.992 - 1269.125 Alex Hortis

So he's already writing detective stories. He writes the first detective story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, in which this Detective Dupin, who becomes his alter ego and becomes the first sort of Sherlock Holmes character, solves an unsolvable crime. And then he comes across the Pauly Boudin case. He's following it very carefully. And then he goes on and he criticizes the police.