E.A. POE -- THE PURLOINED LETTER

This story is about the intellectual Auguste Dupin, who outfoxes the thief and Minister D., when he steals back a letter that D. had stolen from a royal lady in the first place. Dupin and D. are both mathematicians and poets. The Prefect G., who is trying to investigate the case and searches D.'s whole house for the letter, doesn't get anywhere with his mathematical strategies. He lacks the imagination and creativity that the poets have to solve the case, and outsmart the thief. When Dupin is asked for advice, he instead takes the matter in his own hands, knowing that he has the ability to get into Minister D.'s head and turns the tables. He is not only a litte bit smarter than D., he also shows the Prefect, that a poet is more than just a fool, a prejudice that, in that era, brought forth the Prefect's fail in solving the case himself.