Poe Edgar Allan

The intense darkness oppressed and stifled me so that I struggled for breath, why do the walls glow with heat. What is the significance of the painted figure of Time with his menacing pendulum, the blackness of eternal night encompassed me, toledo Prison is notorious for the torture of the condemned

Auguste Dupin, the other two being The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Mystery of Marie Roget, it is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C, these stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story, the Purloined Letter is a short sto

) The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by dismembering it and hiding it under the floorboards, it is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed, ultimately the narrator s guilt manifests itself