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Poe Books 2008
The Tell-Tale Corpse:
An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery
by Harold Schechter
Paperback - Mar 2008
Hardback published Mar 2006
From Booklist:
In the third Edgar Allan Poe mystery, set in late 1845, the amateur sleuth (and would-be literary giant) takes a trip to Massachusetts, looking for a cure for his wife's illness. Naturally, he finds mayhem and murder--a series of murders, in fact, mind-boggling in their deviousness. Aided by a plucky sidekick, one Louisa May Alcott (before she wrote Little Women),Poe pieces together the clues and exposes a criminal mastermind. Schechter, who made his bones writing true crime, clearly has a solid grasp of evil's psychological underpinnings. The Poe novels are gimmicky, to be sure, like any mystery where the protagonist is a famous person, but Schechter makes sure the stories don't feel gimmicky. Poe, who narrates the novel, doesn't seem like a pastiche, and the plot itself is as well constructed as any more conventional mystery. This series could be around for a while.
Poe Books 2007
Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
by Daniel Stashower
Paperback - Dec 4, 2007
From Publishers Weekly:
Fans of Pearl's bestselling debut, The Dante Club (2003), will eagerly embrace his second novel, a compelling thriller centered on the mysterious end of Edgar Allan Poe, who perished in Baltimore in 1849. Poe's ignominious funeral catches the notice of Quentin Clark, a young, idealistic attorney, who finds himself obsessed with rescuing Poe's reputation amid rumors that the writer died from an excess of drink. Clark's preoccupation soon becomes all-consuming, imperiling his practice and his engagement, especially after he learns that Poe's legendary master sleuth, the Chevalier Auguste Dupin, was modeled after a real person. The lawyer journeys to France to track down the real Dupin, in the hopes that the detective can help him solve the puzzle of Poe's death. Pearl masterfully combines fact with fiction and presents some genuinely new historical clues that help reconstruct Poe's final days. While Clark remains a little enigmatic, the exciting plot, numerous twists and convincing period detail could help land this on bestseller lists as well.
Manhattan's Bon Vivant Poisoner
and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
by Harold Schechter
Hardcover - Sep 25, 2007
A Literary Reference to His Life And Work
by Dawn B. Sova
Hardcover - Aug 3, 2007
by Matthew Pearl
Paperback – July 10, 2007
From Publishers Weekly:
Fans of Pearl's bestselling debut, The Dante Club (2003), will eagerly embrace his second novel, a compelling thriller centered on the mysterious end of Edgar Allan Poe, who perished in Baltimore in 1849. Poe's ignominious funeral catches the notice of Quentin Clark, a young, idealistic attorney, who finds himself obsessed with rescuing Poe's reputation amid rumors that the writer died from an excess of drink. Clark's preoccupation soon becomes all-consuming, imperiling his practice and his engagement, especially after he learns that Poe's legendary master sleuth, the Chevalier Auguste Dupin, was modeled after a real person. The lawyer journeys to France to track down the real Dupin, in the hopes that the detective can help him solve the puzzle of Poe's death. Pearl masterfully combines fact with fiction and presents some genuinely new historical clues that help reconstruct Poe's final days. While Clark remains a little enigmatic, the exciting plot, numerous twists and convincing period detail could help land this on bestseller lists as well.
by Richard Matheson and Lawrence French
Hardcover - May 15, 2007
Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments
by Elizabeth Bishop and Alice Quinn
Paperback - Mar 6, 2007
(Literary Criticism in Perspective)
by Scott Peeples
Paperback - Feb 12, 2007
(Just the Facts Biographies)
by Thomas Streissguth and Martha Cosgrove
Library Binding - Feb 2007
by William Fearing Gill
Paperback - Jan 17, 2007