The Purloined Letter

by Edgar Allan Poe

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, Dupin is approached by the prefect of the police to help with a case that involves a stolen letter containing compromising information.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781974995295
Publisher:	Dreamscape Media
Publication date:	07/25/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	349
Sales rank:	840,325
File size:	271 KB
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author of short stories, poetry, and literary criticism and theory. Titled "The Master of the Macabre" he is famous for his tales of mystery and horror. He was one of the earliest masters of the short story and is widely credited as the creator of detective fiction.

Editorial Reviews

• "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

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