Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

So, as I knew he would feel some curiosity in regard to the identity of the person who had outwitted him, I thought it a pity not to give him a clue.

He is well-acquainted with my MS, and I just copied into the middle of the blank sheet the words, 'Undeciem si funeste, sil nes digne, datri es digne de taest.' They are to be found in Crebillon's Atri." End of The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe.

Section 2 of Masterpieces of Mystery: Detective Stories, compiled by Joseph Lewis French.

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