Neighbors of a house in the Rue Morgue heard screams from the fourth story of a house belonging to Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter Camille. Soon after Dupin displays his mental prowess, they observe a news article about a set of murders which had occurred that morning at three A.M.
Surprised, the narrator asks him how he came to the correct conclusion, and Dupin explains that when the narrator ran into a fruiterer, he commenced a series of thoughts that Dupin had deduced by reading his friend's body language and by recalling former conversations. On one of their customary nighttime walks, Dupin displays his skill by responding to a comment that the narrator had not asked aloud, about a former cobbler who had entered the stage to much ridicule. The narrator notices Dupin's superb analytic ability, which Dupin attributes to his understanding of people's thoughts. They quickly become friends and decide to live together in seclusion in a gloomy old mansion, for which the wealthy narrator pays the rent. Nevertheless, Dupin often splurges on books, and he meets the narrator in the Rue Montmartre because both of them are searching for a rare volume. Auguste Dupin, who is living parsimoniously in Paris.
To explain his point, the narrator offers an account from his acquaintance with a Monsieur C. These two qualities are different in that the ingenious are fanciful whereas the analytical are imaginative. Furthermore, ingenuity does not always include analysis, although analysis is always ingenious. The analyst, claims the narrator, is one who can maneuver his opponent into error by identifying with his opponent and by viewing all possibilities. He compares the task of analysis to a game of draughts (checkers) rather than one of chess, arguing that a good chess player benefits from concentration whereas a draughts player benefits from intelligence because the number of possible moves are limited in draughts, a player will win by analyzing every possibility and by observing his opponent. The narrator opens with a short discussion of the analytical mind, whose conclusions seem to be the result of intuition.
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