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Edgar Allan Poe and the London monster, Karen Lee Street

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Edgar Allan Poe and the London monster, Karen Lee Street

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-372)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Edgar Allan Poe and the London monster

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

940362295

Responsibility statement

Karen Lee Street

Summary

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?

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