In this particular instance, the recipient of Roderick's monologue is Auguste Dupin (Carl Lumbly), who soaks in every word, confounded by the intense and ironic nature of the unraveling.

And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day was the Parkman murder. Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, a Frenchman of unusually acute ⁠— if almost "diseased" ⁠— intelligence, informs the ...

Auguste Dupin, who first appeared in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", considered to be the first modern detective novel. Roderick's sister, Madeline, is fascinated with rare Egyptian artifacts and ...

and third, that Poe in this story creates a new hybrid protagonist situated on the scale of ratiocination halfway between the irrational narrators of the tales of conscience and the supremely rational ...