Mary Rogers body found in the River Seine. Poe presented the story as a sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), commonly considered the first modern detective story, and included its main character, C. Auguste Dupin. As Poe wrote in a letter: "under the pretense of showing how Dupin... unravelled the mystery of Marie's assassination, I, in fact, enter into a very rigorous analysis of the real tragedy in New York." In the story, Dupin suggests several possible solutions but never actually names the murderer. Mary Rogers Mary Cecilia Rogers (born c. 1820 – found dead July 28, 1841) was
C. Auguste Dupin deduces what his friend is thinking despite their having walked together in silence for a quarter of an hour, Holmes remarks: "That trick of his breaking in on his friend's thoughts with an apropos remark... is really very showy and superficial"; nevertheless, Holmes later performs the same 'trick' on Watson in "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box". Dupin next appears in a series of seven short stories in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" by Michael Harrison in the 1960s. The stories were collected by the Publishers Mycroft & Moran in 1968 as "The Exploits of Chevalier Dupin". The stories include "The