----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- [Note: Three people solved the riddle. Robert gets the nod for being first -- his message arrived to the list 1 minute before Jens Sandahl's; Robert sent me a message even earlier. Mathew Forstater sent three messages to the list, with increasing certainty regarding authorship and story. His first messages, simply indicating that it was Edgar Allan Poe came before Robert's. But Robert and Jens were the first to get both author and story title right.--RBE] The story is Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter." I found the text by guessing that it was Poe (due to Yuri's penchant for mystery writers) and searching online. See http://www.poedecoder.com/Qrisse/works/purloined.html RMW ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]