The Purloined Letter

Reading this story was a bit confusing for me, maybe because it's a little different from the last couple of stories and because its a mystery. I could honestly say reading this story put me out of my comfort zone. The stories that I usually read are very catchy, the opposite of this one.
It starts off with introducing the setting, which is Paris, and three of the characters, the narrator, Mr. Dupin and Monsieur G. As the story goes on the narrator begins to tell what the mystery is. It seems that a letter is missing that belongs to the Queen and she needs it back as soon as poosible because it contains some things that were not meant to get out. So Prefect has the duty to retrieve the letter back. He believes Minister D has the letter and searches his house but does not find anything. After a month goes by he comes back and searches again. After having no luck for the second time he turns to Dupin, which is a detective, for help in solving the case. He carelessly mentions that the award for finding the letter has increased to Dupin. Dupin quickly acts on it and says to Prefect just write me out a check for 50 francs and the case will be solved. Prefect jumps on Dupins request and pulls out his checkbook and writes the check out and hands it to Dupin an in return Dupin hands him the letter!
I wasn't really expecting the story to end like this but I had to remind myself that it is a mystery so you really never know how its going to end. But overall, it was an interesting story and I look forward to reading more stories like this.