Author: Matthew Pearl
Translator: Eun-seon Lee
Publisher: Hwanggumgaji
Hardcover | 2-volume set | 218*157mm
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About This Book
"I present to you . . . the truth about this man's death and my life."
Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an
unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe's own family and
friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met
a disgraceful end as a drunkard. Everyone, in fact, seems to believe
this except a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent
admirer who puts his own career and reputation at risk in a passionate
crusade to salvage Poe's.
As Quentin explores the puzzling circumstances of Poe's demise, he
discovers that the writer's last days are riddled with unanswered
questions the police are possibly willfully ignoring. Just when Poe's
death seems destined to remain a mystery, and forever sealing his
ignominy, inspiration strikes Quentin - in the form of Poe's own
stories. The young attorney realizes that he must find the one person
who can solve the strange case of Poe's death: the real-life model for
Poe's brilliant fictional detective character, C. Auguste Dupin, the
hero of ingenious tales of crime and detection.
In short order, Quentin finds himself enmeshed in sinister machinations
involving political agents, a female assassin, the corrupt Baltimore
slave trade, and the lost secrets of Poe's final hours. With his own
future hanging in the balance, Quentin Clark must turn master
investigator himself to unchain his now imperiled fate from that of
Poe's.
Following his phenomenal debut novel, The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl has
once again crossed pitch-perfect literary history with innovative
mystery to create a beautifully detailed, ingeniously plotted tale of
suspense. Pearl's groundbreaking research - featuring documented
material never published before - opens a new window on the truth behind
Poe's demise, literary history's most persistent enigma. The resulting
novel is a publishing event that, through sublime craftsmanship, subtle
wit, and devious twists, does honor to Poe himself
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