Thou Art the Man originally titled Thou Art the Man is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1844 It is an early experiment in detective fiction1 like The Murders in the Rue Morgue though it is generally considered an inferior story
The plot involves a man wrongfully accused of murdering his uncle Barnabas Shuttleworthy whose corpse is missing An unnamed narrator finds the body suspects the victims good friend Charles Goodfellow an...