The Purline Letter

A queen has a letter laying out that's incriminating. Poe doesn't name the people, but we assume it's a queen, a king, and a minister. The evil minister happens to be in the room with her and the king,. And he sees the letter laying out on the desk. He steals it; the queen can't do anything about it because if she did, that would draw attention to the existence of the letter - which should be more effective. So then the president hires police who search his department for weeks without success. They even take apart his bed posts as they look everywhere. This is like, like, Edgar Allan Poe, it's his fault where if you ever