The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe

But it is in matters beyond the limits of mere rule that the skill of the analyst is evinced.

with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound. The attention is here called powerfully into play

e is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension præternatural. His results, brought about by the very soul and essence of method, have, in truth, the whole air of intuition.