After Edgar Allan Poe's “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), author of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” The “Ultima Thule” daguerreotype, taken in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 9, 1848.
Dupin Rue draws its name from Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” — widely regarded as the first modern detective story.
Its hero, C. Auguste Dupin, solves an apparently impossible crime not through luck or force but through ratiocination: the disciplined fusion of observation, evidence, and inference. Dupin reads the scene others overlook, weighs competing hypotheses, and reasons his way to the truth — the same analytic mindset this product is built to teach.
The “Rue” in our name is the Rue Morgue itself, the fictional Paris street where Poe set the crime.