THE PURLOINED LETTER EDGAR ALLAN POE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 14 January 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The Purloined Letter is one of Poe's ,three detective stories featuring the very sharp crime solver M. Dupin, who accepts the challenge of finding a hidden letter which has become an impossible feat for the Paris police. Poe's detective stories led the way for other authors to introduce the detective genre. Enjoy all our shows at www.bestof1001stories.com
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to |
| 0:30.5 | the one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host and |
| 0:33.9 | storyteller John Hagenorn. Today the purloined letter by Edgar Allen |
| 0:39.1 | Poe and I think our timing is good here, especially for you poed toasters. |
| 0:44.2 | The poo toaster is the media sober that used to refer to an unidentified person or probably |
| 0:49.2 | more than one person in succession who for several decades paid an annual tribute to the American |
| 0:54.9 | author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the sonataph marking his original grave in |
| 0:59.6 | Baltimore, Maryland in the early hours of January 19th, Poe's birthday. |
| 1:05.7 | The shadowy figure dressed in black with a wide-brimmed hat and white scarf would pour himself |
| 1:10.4 | a glass of cognac or Cherry Brandy, a Montelato or Scotch whiskey, and raise a toast to |
| 1:16.5 | pose memory, then vanish into the night, leaving three roses in a distinctive arrangement |
| 1:21.8 | and the unfinished bottle of liquor. |
| 1:24.0 | onlookers gathered annually in hopes of glimpsing the elusive toaster |
| 1:28.0 | who did not seek publicity and was rarely seen or photographed. |
| 1:34.4 | According to eyewitness reports and notes accompanying offerings in later years, |
| 1:38.8 | the original toaster made the annual visitation from sometime in the 1930s though no report appeared in print until |
| 1:45.3 | 1950 until his death in 1998 after which the tradition was passed to a son. |
| 1:53.0 | Controversial statements were made in some notes left by the post- 1998 toaster. |
| 1:58.0 | In 2010, there was no visit by the toaster, with absences in 2011 and 2012 signaling an end to the 75-year tradition. |
| 2:08.5 | However, in 2016, the Maryland Historical Society selected a new toaster to revive the tradition. |
| 2:18.2 | If you happen to be in Baltimore on the evening of January 19th, you might want to see if you can catch him. Meanwhile, we'll regale |
| 2:26.2 | you with Edgar Allan Pose, the purloined letter. Note purlo, means stolen or borrowed. |
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