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Available
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Description
The discovery of a message in code on a shoreline formerly infested with pirates sends William Legrand and his friends on a hunt for buried treasure.
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Publication
Jamestown Pubns (1982)
User reviews
LibraryThing member ohernaes
Short story. A man decodes a cryptographed message. According to Wikipedia, Poe played a role in popularizing cryptography.
LibraryThing member delphimo
I usually enjoy Poe, but this short story left me feeling empty. I felt that time had been wasted on nonsense. Nelson DeMille explores the Captain Kidd lost treasure, and does a better job than Poe. Both works gush with silly formulas and codes for finding the treasure. Poe uses hoity-toity
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language for one character and poor slave vernacular for another character. Then the story ends abruptly. Show Less
LibraryThing member fuzzy_patters
I thought this story was good, but I wanted more from it. The resolution didn't do enough for me. It needed more weirdness and intrigue.
LibraryThing member thornton37814
This short story explores Captain Kidd's lost treasure reputed to be on Sullivan's Island. Poe uses his interest in cryptography in his solution. Poe uses Gullah dialect for Jupiter's character which makes it difficult to read in places. This falls far short of most of Poe's work. Twenty-first
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century readers will view the story as racist, but the nineteenth-century audience likely would not have batted an eye at the overtones which are similar to those by other period writers. The book's font and illustrations are all brown. The scenes illustrated and map depict Sullivan's Island. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1843-06
1843
Physical description
9.25 inches
ISBN
0890612684 / 9780890612682