Abstract
I have, during the course of this study, argued that the concept of enclosure should be recognized as having a profound effect on detective fiction. Much of the reason for this is directly attributable to the locked room mystery, and in particular to ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’; its dual status as the first modern detective story and a locked room mystery has meant that it occupies a seminal position in the canon. In this story, as I have already demonstrated, enclosure was consonant with the architecture of the locked room, the nature of the new narrative structure and the way in which the theme of ratiocination formed a frame around the narrative. Crucially, the theme of logical reasoning interacts with the narrative to fulfil the detective story’s desire for closure.
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