At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18--, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, au troisieme, No. 33, Rue Dunot, Faubourg St. Germain.
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(1931)
The purloined letter
by Edgar Allan Poe
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The brilliant Dupin uses psychological reasoning to deduce the hiding place of a stolen letter.
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Fiction, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, Children's fiction, C. Auguste Dupin (Fictitious character), American literature, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, short stories (single author)People
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"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 Rogêt". These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story. It first appeared in the literary annual The Gift for 1845 (1844) and soon was reprinted in numerous journals and newspapers.
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