The Purloined Letter

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Publisher	E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Publication Year	1844
ISBN-13	9786057861511
ISBN-10	6057861515
Binding	Paperback
Number of Pages	38 Pages
Language	(English)
Dimensions (Cms)	25.4 X 20.3 X 4.7
Weight (grms)	53
Subject	Classic Fiction

The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget." The unnamed narrator is discussing with the famous Parisian amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin some of his most celebrated cases when they are joined by the Prefect of the Police, a man known as G-.

The Prefect has a case he would like to discuss with Dupin. A letter has been stolen from the boudoir of an unnamed woman by the unscrupulous Minister D-. It is said to contain compromising information. D- was in the room, saw the letter, and switched it for a letter of no importance. He has been blackmailing his victim.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born to poor parents in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States in the year 1809. He found himself an orphan before he was three years old. His godfather, John Allan was a wealthy Virginian who gave Poe the best education in England and America. While Poe was still in his teens, a quarrel with his godfather estranged him from his family. From then onwards, poverty and illness were Poe’s constant companions. But so was brilliance, as Poe published three books of poems by the time he was twenty-one years old. In 1833, he won $50 with his short story in a newspaper contest. His poem ‘The Raven’ was famous throughout America when it came out in 1845. Poe’s horror stories still fill the readers with dread even after so many years and his stories of adventure and deduction set parameters for other writers to follow. Edgar Allan Poe passed away in Baltimore, Maryland, aged just forty years.