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The Purloined Letter: A Classic Story of Intrigue by Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 Rogt". These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story. It first appeared in The Gift for 1845 (1844) and was soon reprinted in numerous journals and newspapers.
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
- Publisher
- Mankato, Minn.: Creative Education, Inc.
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780886820619
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Children'S, Fiction, Mystery
- Rating
- 3.74 / 5 (7,419 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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