He puts an ad in a paper read widely amongst sailors for a found orangutan, and sure enough a sailor shows up and explains that his orangutan got loose and was frightened and angered by the woman and her daughter when he found them, and reacted violently. Poe writes the explanation in a way where Dupin tells all of the important characters what he has discovered in a sweeping reveal that shocks both the characters and the reader. This is a style that is copied in many detective writings and is used by many characters from Holmes to
He puts an ad in a paper read widely amongst sailors for a found orangutan, and sure enough a sailor shows up and explains that his orangutan got loose and was frightened and angered by the woman and her daughter when he found them, and reacted violently. Poe writes the explanation in a way where Dupin tells all of the important characters what he has discovered in a sweeping reveal that shocks both the characters and the reader. This is a style that is copied in many detective writings and is used by many characters from Holmes to