The Masque of the Red Death (play) opium den, a 19th-century French-inspired music hall ("The Palais Royale"), a library, perfumery, morgue, banqueting hall, bedrooms and a crypt. The Gold-Bug Hunt was a game by interactive theatre-makers "Coney" that took place online, in the "real world", and within The Masque of the Red Death. It ran for six months, extending past the end date of the show itself. Participants initially discovered the game by interacting with a mysterious masked and hooded figure within the Palais Royale bar area of the show. Coney transposed a mystery based on another Edgar Allan Poe short story, "The Gold-Bug", onto the narrative
The Murders in the Rue Morgue on the language the murderer spoke, Dupin concludes they were not hearing a human voice at all. He and the narrator examine the house thoroughly; the following day, Dupin dismisses the idea of both Le Bon's guilt and a robbery motive, citing the fact that the gold was not taken from the room. He also points out that the murderer would have had to have superhuman strength to force the daughter's body up the chimney. He formulates a method by which the murderer could have entered the room and killed both women, involving an agile climb up a lightning rod