In the last of the M. Dupin stories, Poe is careful to have the narrator mention the detective's previous two cases, as if they were something every reader ought to know about. (Shades of Stan Lee's cult of continuity!)
The ingenious solution of the "purloined letter" is now so well that it needs no detailing here. Most of the story takes place in conversation, with Dupin making his usual pithy observations at the expense of unobservant mankind.
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