The Purloined Letter

by Edgar Allan Poe Narrated by Chris Lutkin

Overview

First published in a 1844 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1845, The Purloined Letter is the third and final story that features Poe's detective, C. Auguste Dupin. In it, a letter containing compromising information has been stolen from the boudoir of an unnamed woman by the unscrupulous Minister D-. The police offer a reward for the return of the letter and amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin obliges them. After collecting the reward, Dupin relates the ingenious way he determined the letter's location to an unnamed narrator. The story is an important early forerunner of the modern detective story, and has a similar plot to A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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From the Publisher

• "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:	2940175362566
Publisher:	Dreamscape Media
Publication date:	07/25/2017
Series:	Select Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Edition description:	Unabridged

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