The Purloined Letter

by Edgar Allan Poe Narrated by Cathy Dobson

Overview

When a letter of great significance is stolen from the royal palace in Paris, the prefect of police is at great pains to discover its whereabouts. The identity of the thief is known, but try as the detectives will, they are unable to pinpoint the hiding place where the incriminating letter is secreted. When the Prefect approaches Dupin for his advice on the matter, the latter sees the solution immediately. An insight from which he is able to profit handsomely. Poe at his most ingenious!

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• "That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities."
• "As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all."
• "We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.."

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171258764
Publisher:	Red Door Consulting
Publication date:	05/16/2013
Edition description:	Unabridged

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