5 out of 5
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I am a fan of almost all the mystery writers, particularly Edgar Allan Poe, Aleixandre Dumas = (The Counte of Monte Cristo), Arthur Canon Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Agatha Christie, John Le Carre (The Spy who came in from the cold), (The day of Jackal), and a host of other UK. USA, Russian and German, Detective and Mystery writers have given us best of their work. Some three decades ago perhaps several detective magazines like True Detective etc used to be published giving stories of Crime and Detection purported to be real life crimes. What I like most about the Purloined Letter that a few stolen documents rob the peace of mind of a respectable personage. The police fail to unearth then even after ransacking the entire house. What is striking is the method psychological deduction and solution of the mystery in the most obvious place. The novel retains the readers’ interest from first to last and the way Dupin goes about in unraveling the mystery. I believe his deductive methods may have influenced Sir Doyle in developing the methods of world famous Detective Sherlock Holmes. Some readers strongly consider The Gold Bug as Poe’s master work.
