Once Upon a Midnight Eerie: Book #2 (The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe) - Softcover

McAlpine, Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142423491 ISBN 13: 9780142423493

Publisher: Puffin Books, 2015

Synopsis

A perfect choice for smart, funny tweens who love Roald Dahl and Lemony Snicket.

In The Tell-Tale Start, Edgar and Allan Poe (great-great-great-great-grandnephews of the legendary Edgar Allan Poe) managed to outwit the nefarious Professor P. Pangborn Perry, who was (and is) determined to kill just one of them, in order to prove a mad scientific theory. Now the boys are in New Orleans, about to play the young Poe in a feature film. But the role may cost them their lives, because now someone else wants them dead. But who? And can the twins—with the help of their co-stars, Em and Milly Dickinson, their ghostly forebear, and a pair of real ghosts—manage to outwit them?

About this title

From the Author:

Around age 9, I discovered the joyful experience of reading books.  Until then, reading had been a school subject at which I excelled but from which I drew no extraordinary pleasure or identification.  And then I came upon a series of mysteries for children called "Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Three Investigators".  Written by a Golden Age of radio veteran named Robert A. Arthur, the books transported me.  That thrills and wonder and friendship could be shared on a page was a revelation. What fun!  With time, I learned, of course, that a writer can share more complex emotional and intellectual adventures as well.  But it was those three boys and their detective agency in a junk yard that first fueled my writer's imagination.  And it is my hope that "The Misadventures of Edgar and Allan Poe" trilogy may do the same for a new generation of readers.

About the Author:

Gordon McAlpine (www.gordonmcalpine.net) is the author of two novels for adults (The Persistence of Memory and Joy in Mudville),  the YA/adult crossover novel Mystery Box (which imagines the "real life" of Franklin Dixon and Carolyn Keene, the creators of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew!),and -- of course -- the first Misadventure of Edgar and Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Start.  He lives with his wife in Southern California.

Sam Zuppardi (www.samzuppardi.com) is the illustrator of The Tell-Tale Start. His first picture book, The Nowhere Box, has just been released. He lives in York, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0142423491
• ISBN 13: 9780142423493
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Illustrator: Zuppardi Sam