![]() ![]() While searching for the stolen letter in the Minister’s apartment, the Paris police use intuition because they assume that the letter would be in a small, hidden compartment. The Purloined Letter presents a theme which is logic vs. When Monsieur G- returns back to Dupin a month later with an increased fifty-thousand dollar reward, Dupin presents the letter him and collects the reward. Dupin claims that because the letter is readily available, it must be in Minister D-’s apartment, but Monsieur G- responds that they have thoroughly checked the Minister’s apartment and there was no letter to be found. The prefect of the Paris police, Monsieur G-, claims that a man by the name of Minister D- has stolen the letter and replaced it with a duplicate letter of his own. ![]() The letter contains important information about a political figure in a high position that could potentially this person, which causes serious concern among the police. Auguste Dupin, a detective who also appears in Poe’s other two detective works The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Mystery of Marie Roget, and the Paris police as they try to solve the mystery of a missing letter. ![]() ![]() Edgar Allan Poe’s The Purloined Letter is widely considered the greatest of his three detective short stories. ![]()
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