400 pages. Edgar Allan Poe's introduction to America's greatest showman is, more accurately, a confrontation. Poe has taken Barnum to task in print, exposing Barnum's museum "curiosities" as frauds - flagrant humbugs designed to feed a vulgar public appetite. But Barnum hasn't come to Poe's New York City residence for a retraction. He has arrived - with the audacity that has made him one of the city's most famous men - to ask for a favor.A young beauty with a shadowy past has been savagely murdered. Her hideous wounds mirror a gruesome tableau in Barnum's wax exhibit - down to the flawless rose between her lips - causing authorities to ponder Barnum's own responsibility. He has no recourse other than to solve the crime himself - with the aid of the master of morbid, criminal motivation. Having already achieved a reputation for deductive brilliance by solving Baltimore's notorious "Nevermore Murders," Poe accepts Barnum's challenge.But neither the writer nor the huckster - each with a curious taste for the macabre - has anticipated the jagged maze that is the soul of a madman. For someone else among the night streets has a gift for the sensational. The blood he spills is no humbug. And - with the blade of a butcher's knife - he'll do what he must to outshine these two legends.

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Title

The Hum Bug

Publisher

Pocket Books, New York

Publication Date

2001

Language

English

ISBN 10

0671041150

ISBN 13

9780671041151

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

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Near Fine

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Near Fine

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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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