The policeman skeptically writes him the check, and Dupin immediately produces the missing letter.

Dupin asks him to write a check for his salary, fifty thousand francs, and he will hand over the letter. He says that he has had no luck in finding the letter, and the reward for it has been raised to such a high sum that he'd be willing to hand over a year's pay to whomever can find the letter for him. Despite his thoroughness, Dupin suggests to the Prefect that he check the residence again.Ī month later the Prefect returns to speak to the same two gentlemen, having become completely frustrated with the case. At night while he is away, they have also ransacked his home quite thoroughly checking inside every piece of furniture, every book, and under every floorboard with no sign of the letter. The policemen describes how he has witnessed several searches of the minister himself, and he clearly is not carrying the letter on him. Therefore, the policeman knows that the Minister has robbed this royal personage and has the letter in his possession, yet the police can't find it. She couldn't stop him because a third person was in the room, and the letter had sensitive material in it, so she didn't want to draw attention to it.

He explains that a woman of importance had a letter taken away from her by a man who stood right in front of her. He decides to tell them about a case he's working on that he can't solve. Auguste Dupin in Dupin's library when the Prefect of the Paris police stops by. The first person narrator sits with his friend C.

Perhaps the most famous of Edgar Allan Poe's detective stories, 'The Purloined Letter' breaks from his usual horror genre to present a detective story free of violence but full of analysis.

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