Edgar Allan Poe and The Empire of the Dead
- 368 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
'And I prayed that I would find a way to tell my most honorable friend, the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, the truth about how I had finally been murdered, and by whom.'
Karen Lee Street Pořadí knih (chronologicky)
Karen Lee Street, která nyní žije v Austrálii, čerpá ze svých raných let v ponurém pensylvánském statku, kde se zrodily náznaky gotiky, které pronikají jejím psaním. Její kritiky oceňované historické detektivky sledují dobrodružství Edgara Allana Poea a C. Augusta Dupina při řešení dávných zločinů a záhad. Její příběhy jsou prodchnuty atmosférou, tajemstvím a občasnou zbraní, která se objeví v nejméně očekávanou chvíli.
Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru
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- 13 hodin čtení
In this reimagined mystery, Poe and his fictional detective Dupin are friends who solve crimes together. Among anti-immigrant upheaval in Philadelphia in 1844, they are mystified by the arrival of a package of mummified bird parts and a young heiress in distress.
Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster
- 384 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
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?