The Purloined Letter

by Edgar Allan Poe Narrated by Richard Stibbard

Overview

In one of Edgar Allan Poe's most brilliant detective tales, C. Auguste Dupin faces a crime that is as much about intellect as it is about cunning. When a highly sensitive letter is stolen from the royal apartments by a shrewd and unscrupulous minister, the police search tirelessly-yet fail to find it. Called upon for help, Dupin applies his unparalleled powers of observation and deduction, proving that the best hiding place may be in plain sight.

The Purloined Letter is a masterclass in psychological intrigue and logical reasoning, a classic that continues to inspire the detective fiction genre.

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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:	2940194977000
Publisher:	Anthony Pica Productions, LLC
Publication date:	08/21/2025
Edition description:	Unabridged

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