In this work, one character fakes a need to wear green spectacles, and then deliberately leaves behind a snuff box to return the next day.
In this work, one character fakes a need to wear green spectacles, and then deliberately leaves behind a snuff box to return the next day. This work opens with the phrase "nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness" and describes a game where a word is "hidden" by widely stretching it across an entire map, describing the principle of hidden in plain sight. Eventually, the title document is revealed to be in the apartment of Minister D-. For 10 points, name this short story of Edgar Allen Poe in which detective C. Auguste Dupin must recover a politically comprising letter.
In this work, one character fakes a need to wear green spectacles, and then deliberately leaves behind a snuff box to return the next day.
“The {Purloined Letter}”