Day 22: The Purloined Letter
Thoughts: A disappointing ending to my October Halloween Edgar Allan Poe reading series; as soon as I saw the name "Dupin" I knew that oh for fuck's sake, here we go again. For being the godfather of the modern mystery novel, almost every one I read this month was exceedingly dull in both its execution and delivery. I don't see the point in his repeated literary device of just filling up a bunch of pages with whatever and then at
the very end saying "okay, here's everything that happened without you
even remotely knowing any of it so that I may now call this a mystery of
sorts." Whatever score this story gets will be purely based on my own generosity as well as the quasi-interesting motif of placing the evidence in plain sight based on a game of Odds & Evens; however, the thing could've been told in a much more interesting, narrative way instead of this 19th century Encyclopedia Brown nonsense.
Memorable Line: None.
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