The Purloined Letter.

The Purloined Letter

The Purloined Letter is a short story written by American author Allan Poe .It is about third among his three detective stories .This story collection of three stories first appear in the literary annual the gift for 1845 was soon reprinted in numerous journals and newspapers.

The unnamed narrator is discussing Augustan Dupin when they are joined by the perfect purloined a man known as purloined .The perfect has a case he would like to discuss with Dupin.

A letter has been stolen from the bounder of an unnamed female by the unscrupulous minister D.

It is information Dunton was in the room saw the letter and switched it far a letter and switched it for a letter of no importance. he has been blackmailing by his victim the perfect makes two deductions with which Dupin does not disagree.

The purloined letter styled more like a play than a story its almost entirely dialogue .The main person doing the talking is Dupin .Actually the narrator is doing all the talking but he’s telling us what Dupin is saying.

And Dupin is like many Poe characters is fond complex sentence structure.like here Dupin is discussing scientific Principle of Inertia.which basically states that things like to be still. And big things.

Dupin says “person with big brain will have more trouble getting started on something than a person with small brain.”