Book description
The Purloined Letter by 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…
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This story by Poe is one of the first modern mystery stories written and creates a template for almost everything that follows.
This story by Poe is one of the first modern mystery stories written and creates a template for almost everything that follows. It is a brilliant, short, but perfect example of detection. Poe set the standard for a whole genre of mysteries that have followed, featuring a detective who, by reason, logic, and intuition, solves a puzzle.
What I like about this particular story is that the detective figures out the mystery without some sort of mystical intellect…
From James' list on classic American mystery books.
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