Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Try for £0.00
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
The Purloined Letter cover art

The Purloined Letter

By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: Kerry Shale
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £1.79

Buy Now for £1.79

Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Edgar Allan Poe Collection - Volume I cover art
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter - Unabridged cover art
The Murders in the Rue Morgue cover art
The Edgar Allan Poe Complete Works Collection - Stories, Poems, Novels, and Essays cover art
Death on the Down Beat cover art
A Silent Witness cover art
The Eye of Osiris cover art
The House of the Vampire cover art
The Five Orange Pips cover art
The Woman in the Alcove cover art
Dark Arts, Dark Acts cover art
Thorndyke: Novels 1-4 cover art
A Magician Among the Spirits cover art
The Adventure of the Three Students cover art
The Mystery of 31 New Inn cover art
In Re: Sherlock Holmes cover art

Editor reviews

Kerry Shale’s impressively elastic vocal stylings animate the diverse menagerie of characters, from amateur sleuth C. Auguste Dupin and his erudite Parisian lilt to the Police Prefect and his hearty, reverberating guffaw, found in Edgar Allan Poe’s third and final foray into detective fiction, a genre some say he laid the groundwork for, which delves into the circumstances surrounding the search for a letter stolen from a woman’s boudoir by the conniving Minister D---, who’s hell-bent on blackmailing her.

Summary

This is a story from the Murders in the Rue Morgue (The Dupin Stories) collection.

Auguste Dupin, investigator extraordinaire, was the remarkable creation of Edgar Allan Poe. Written in the 1840s, Poe presented the acutely observant, shrewd but idiosyncratic character who, with his chronicler, provided the inspiration for the more famous Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.The Dupin Stories include the following:

  • "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
  • "The Mystery of Marie Roget"
  • "The Purloined Letter"

    •
    ©2005 Naxos AudioBooks Ltd. (P)2005 Naxos AudioBooks Ltd.
    Anthologies Short Stories Classics Literary Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories Traditional Detectives
    Show More Show Less

    What listeners say about The Purloined Letter

    Average customer ratings
    Overall
    • 4 out of 5 stars
    • 5 Stars
      4
    • 4 Stars
      2
    • 3 Stars
      3
    • 2 Stars
      0
    • 1 Stars
      0
    Performance
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • 5 Stars
      6
    • 4 Stars
      2
    • 3 Stars
      1
    • 2 Stars
      0
    • 1 Stars
      0
    Story
    • 4 out of 5 stars
    • 5 Stars
      5
    • 4 Stars
      1
    • 3 Stars
      3
    • 2 Stars
      0
    • 1 Stars
      0

    Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

    Audible.co.uk reviews

    Amazon reviews
    Sort by:
    Filter by:
    • Overall
      5 out of 5 stars
    • Performance
      5 out of 5 stars
    • Story
      5 out of 5 stars
    Profile Image for Tony Rawlinson

    Outstanding

    Great narration of a masterful story: one of the greatest stories ever committed to paper.

    Report this

    Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

    You voted on this review!

    You reported this review!