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Edgar Allan Poe and the London monster

Street, Karen Lee2017
Books, Manuscripts
Summer, 1840. Edgar Allan Poe sails from Philadelphia to London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin, in hope that the great detective will help him solve a family mystery. For Poe 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 played a more clandestine role - stalking well-to-do young women at night, to slice their clothing and derriè€res. Poe hopes to prove the missives forgeries; Dupin wonders if they are real, but their content is 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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Imprint:
London : Oneworld, 2017.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781786070302 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTIONF
Language:
English
BRN:
2409355
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