Further appreciation to the generations of scholars who have assembled our current knowledge about Poe's life, including the exceptional Burton Pollin (who first noticed the appearance, mentioned in this novel, of the initials “E. S. T. G.”in the Broadway Journal).

Baltimore, 1849. Tile body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. Quentin Clark is a young lawyer and ardent admirer who puts his own career and reputation at risk in a crusade to fiml out tile truth behind Poe's death. After discovering that tile writer's last days are riddled with unanswered questions tile police are ignoring, Quentin finds himself enmeshed in sinister maehinalions involving international political agents, a female assassin, the corrupt Baltimore slave trade, and the lost secrets of Poe's final hours. Iu order to unchain his now imperiled fate from Poe's, Quentin must himself turn master investigator.

BOOK I OCTOBER 8,1849

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