Language: English
Published in: 1844
Categorie(s): Fiction, Short Stories
Word count: 7,152 words (≈ 29 minutes)
Source: http://en.wikisource.org
Copyright: Public Domain
"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… (more)
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Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective in literature did not stand alone. This list contains some of his predecessors, contemporaries and heirs.
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