New York. 2001. November 2001. Pocket Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0671041150. A mystery featuring Edgar Allan Poe. 388 pages. hardcover. Cover illustration by Tom Halliman. keywords: Mystery America Edgar Allan Poe. DESCRIPTION - Having proved his deductive brilliance solving Baltimore's notorious 'Nevermore Murders,' Edgar Allan Poe turns his investigative eye to the streets of mid-nineteenth century New York City. A young beauty with a shadowy past has been savagely murdered; her hideous wounds mirror a gruesome tableau in P.T. Barnum's wax exhibit -- and it is in defense of his own innocence that America's greatest showman has come to Poe for help. But neither the writer nor the huckster has anticipated the jagged maze that is the soul of a madman. Harold Schechter, whose historical fiction 'keeps the finger of suspicion wandering until the very end' (The New York Times Book Review), adds a wry, pitch-perfect, and suspense-laced dimension to the fascinating life and times of the literary master of morbid, criminal motivation -- Edgar Allan Poe. inventory #31089.

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Title: The Hum Bug
Publisher: Pocket Books
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0671041150
ISBN 13: 9780671041151
Binding: hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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American showman P.T. Barnum enlists the aid of Edgar Allan Poe to find a killer, after a beautiful young woman is found murdered, her gruesome injuries mirroring a tableau in Barnum's wax museum.

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Harold Schechter is a professor of American literature and culture at Queens College, the City University of New York.

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