The Tales of Edgar Allen Poe are largely a blend of the mysterious, the mystical and the macabre. And in this classic Poe story of Parisian Intrigue Adolph Menjue as Detective Auguste Dupin in the The Purloined Letter. The story is told as narrated by Poe himself conferring with Dupin.

When the princess receives a personal letter Monsieur Deleon a government minister cunningly steals it and blackmails the princess to persuade her husband to change his mind in the matter of the new tax. Monsieur Gerund of the Parisian Police is at a loss to find the letter and has offered 50,000 francs of his personal money to August Dupin if he can find the letter.