Dear Poe, Thou art truly the Man! Just finished reading "Thou Art The Man", a short story from my book of Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Works and I am both in awe and dying over here! Pretty much knew the ending before I got to it aside from the hilarious twist. In short revenge, accusations, denials and well thought out cover-ups mean nothing when a third person knows you're guilty says nothing but rather plots to expose your guilt in both an ingenious and humorous manner. Motive of guilty man, revenge. Reward fine wine, dead body in box, his blunt confession and death from shock immediately after .