Madame L'Espanaye

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Madame L'Espanaye is a fictional Parisian woman whose brutal and mysterious death forms the central crime investigated in Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."

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Madame L'Espanaye canonical 2
Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
murder victim
appearsIn The Murders in the Rue Morgue
appearsInShortStoryBy Edgar Allan Poe
createdBy Edgar Allan Poe
creator Edgar Allan Poe
deathCause homicide
deathCircumstances apparently impossible crime in a locked room
deathLocation apartment in the Rue Morgue
deathManner violent death
familyRelation mother of Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye
fictionalUniverse C. Auguste Dupin stories
firstAppearance The Murders in the Rue Morgue
firstPublicationYear 1841
gender female
investigatedBy C. Auguste Dupin
unnamed narrator of The Murders in the Rue Morgue
languageOfWork English
livesWith Madame L'Espanaye self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye
name Madame L'Espanaye self-link
nationality French
notableFor being victim in one of the earliest modern detective stories
residence Paris
Rue Morgue
roleInWork central murder victim
subject of investigation by C. Auguste Dupin
workGenreContext detective fiction
mystery fiction
workSettingCity Paris

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue victim Madame L'Espanaye
The Murders in the Rue Morgue victim Madame L'Espanaye
this entity surface form: Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye
Madame L'Espanaye name Madame L'Espanaye self-link
Madame L'Espanaye livesWith Madame L'Espanaye self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye