Godina izdanja: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7012-8
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

The Poe Shadow Paperback – 10 July 2007, by Matthew Pearl (Author)
Product details
Publisher: Random House Trade; Reprint edition (10 July 2007)
Language: English
Paperback: 400 pages
Dimensions : 12.95 x 2.24 x 20.27 cm
`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
KC