Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster: A Novel - Hardcover

Street, Karen Lee

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9781681772202: Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster: A Novel

Synopsis

The famed writer and poet sails to London to engage the illustrious detective Auguste Dupin to solve a Poe family mystery, in a stylish and brilliantly constructed debut novel.

Summer, 1840. Edgar Allan Poe sails from Philadelphia to London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin, with the hope that the great detective will help him solve a family mystery. For Poe has inherited a mahogany box containing a collection of letters allegedly written by his grandparents, Elizabeth and Henry Arnold.

The Arnolds were actors who struggled to make a living on the London stage, but the mysterious letters suggest that the couple has a more clandestine and nefarious lifestyle, stalking well-to-do young women at night, to slice their clothing and derrieres.

Poe hopes to prove the missives forgeries; Dupin wonders if perhaps they are real, but their content fantasy. Soon Poe is being stalked by someone who knows far more about his grandparents and their crimes than he does. And then he remembers disturbing attacks made upon him as a child in London―could the perpetrators be connected?

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About the Author

Karen Lee Street is the author of two prior novels in her Poe and Dupin mystery series, Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster and Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru. Karen is American by birth but now lives in Australia.

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