The Purloined Letter
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"The Purloined Letter" is a classic detective short story by Edgar Allan Poe featuring C. Auguste Dupin as he unravels the clever concealment of a stolen document.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
detective fiction work
ⓘ
mystery story ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| adaptation |
radio adaptations
ⓘ
stage adaptations ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ |
| alsoFollows | The Murders in the Rue Morgue ⓘ |
| antagonist | Minister D—— ⓘ |
| author | Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| centralObject | stolen letter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| detectiveCharacter | C. Auguste Dupin ⓘ |
| fictionalTimePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| follows | The Mystery of Marie Rogêt ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| includedIn | many Poe short story collections ⓘ |
| influenced |
Arthur Conan Doyle
ⓘ
Sherlock Holmes stories ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
analytical reasoning
ⓘ
game theory-like strategic thinking ⓘ |
| keyPlotDevice | letter hidden in plain sight ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | short fiction ⓘ |
| literaryCharacter |
C. Auguste Dupin
ⓘ
Minister D—— ⓘ Monsieur G—— (Prefect of the Parisian police) ⓘ Narrator (unnamed friend of Dupin) ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American Romanticism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of the rational detective
ⓘ
influence on later detective fiction ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1844 ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Carey and Hart ⓘ |
| policeCharacter | Monsieur G—— ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | third Dupin story ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Mystery of Marie Rogêt ⓘ |
| publicationMedium |
The Gift
ⓘ
surface form:
The Gift: A Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845
|
| series | C. Auguste Dupin stories ⓘ |
| settingCountry | France ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| structure | dialogue-driven investigation ⓘ |
| theme |
limits of police methods
ⓘ
misdirection and concealment ⓘ psychology of detection ⓘ reason versus intuition ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Edgar Allan Poe