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Quotation from Tales (Selection) by Edgar Allan Poe
“Perhaps the mystery is a little too plain”
Tales (Selection), The Purloined Letter (Project Gutenberg Raven Edition text)
Early in the tale Dupin suggests to the baffled Prefect that the difficulty lies in the obviousness of the case; the Prefect laughs at the idea.
Citation: "Perhaps the mystery is a little too plain" — Edgar Allan Poe, Tales (Selection), The Purloined Letter (Project Gutenberg Raven Edition text). (id poe-tales-q3)
Portrait: Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849, restored, squared off, Unknown author Unknown author ; Restored by Yann Forget and Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
