S3E1 The Purloined Letter
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Welcome to Mysteries to Die For.
I am TG Wolff and am here with Jack, my piano player and producer. This is a podcast where we combine storytelling with original music to put you at the heart of mystery, murder, and mayhem. These are arrangements, which means instead of word-for-word readings, you get a performance meant to be heard. Jack and I perform these live, front to back, no breaks, no fakes, no retakes.
This is Season 3, Enter the Detective. This season contains adaptations of the first cases for detectives. Some will be characters from book, screen, and stage. Others will be lesser known but with great stories that we hope you give a try.
For episode 1, we go back to Edgar Allan Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin. We did Dupin’s first mystery, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, as episode 1 of Season 2. We are starting this season with his third case, The Purloined Letter. Many of the detectives that come later compare themselves to Dupin, which made it feel wrong to begin the season with anyone else. Episode 1 is about secrets, blackmail, and outsmarting the cops. This is Dupin and the Purloined Letter, an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Purloined Letter.
Episode Materials
There are several places where you can find the original. Gutenberg is one of them. ttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2148
Information on Paris and the police under Louis Philippe can be found on these wikipedia pages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_under_Louis-Philippe#The_Police
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Police_Prefecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Philippe_I
Cast of characters
C. Auguste Dupin, logical detective of the first order
Narrator, who we will call E.A. Poe
Gabriel Delessert, Paris Prefect of Police
Marie Amalia Teresa, the last queen of France
Princess Adélaïde, sister to Louis Phillippe, King of the French
Monseiur Gagne, the minister of something or another
After the Story
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Mysteries to Die For is written by TG Wolff with contribution from Jack Wolff. Dupin and the Purloined Letter was written by TG Wolff, adapted from The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe. Music and production and by Jack Wolff. Episode art is by Shannon Leahy.
