The Purloined Letter

"The Purloined Letter"
Short story by Edgar Allan Poe
The Gift: A Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Present, 1845
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Detective fiction Short story
Publication
Publisher	The Gift for 1845
Media type	Print (periodical)
Publication date	December 1844

"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 of the modern detective story. It first appeared in the literary annual The Gift for 1845 (1844) and soon was reprinted in numerous journals and newspapers.