In Poe's "The Black Cat," what did he tell the police? What was heard from behind the wall? What did they find behind the wall?

In The Black Cat, the narrator helped the police search his house for any proof he had murdered his wife. They obviously had reason to believe there was at least a possibility, and so they looked everywhere at "...every nook and cranny..." (Poe). He became so proud that they couldn't find the body (which he walled up in the basement) that he became cocky and started telling them what a well-built house he had. They...

In The Black Cat, the narrator helped the police search his house for any proof he had murdered his wife. They obviously had reason to believe there was at least a possibility, and so they looked everywhere at "...every nook and cranny..." (Poe). He became so proud that they couldn't find the body (which he walled up in the basement) that he became cocky and started telling them what a well-built house he had. They try to leave, and as they do he knocks on the walls to once again show how great the house is, and when he does, they hear the noise.

In all the drama of hiding the body of his wife, when he walled up the body the cat somehow ended up in the wall with her. When he put up the wall, he trapped the cat there, and when he banged on the wall, the cat heard it and started making noise. This obviously alerted the officers to something being wrong, they broke down the wall and found not only the cat; but the body of the narrator's wife.

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