Here's how the experience went, approximately:Ģ5 pages in: Why is this guy so obsessed with Poe? And why is he so indifferent to his life-long presumed fiance?ħ5 pages in: I should probably stop. So my reading experience could be as much a product of my changing tastes and interests as the quality of this book itself. Hence my desire to dip into my older books when looking for a Halloween read. This year, as I've been trying to weed out my book collection, I've realized that my reading interests have drifted from when I was buying books that I had no time to read to today. In order to unchain his imperiled fate from Poe's, Quentin must himself turn master investigator.Once upon a time in high school (yes, high school) I read and loved Matthew Pearl's The Dante Club enough that I picked up Pearl's next book, The Poe Shadow, from a second hand shop at a point when I had too much homework to read anything for fun, and gave The Dante Club 5 stars when I got a Goodreads account about 6 years later. Quentin soon finds himself enmeshed in sinister machinations involving international political agents, a female assassin, the corrupt Baltimore slave trade, and the lost secrets of Poe's final hours. Auguste Dupin, the hero of an ingenious tales of crime and detection. 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. Just as Poe's death seems destined to remain a mystery, inspiration strikes Quentin in the form of Poe's own stories.
Everyone, in fact, seems to believe this except the young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who puts his own career and reputation at risk in a crusade the salvage Poe's.Īs Quentin explorers the puzzling circumstances of Poe's demise, he discovers that the writer's last days are riddled with unanswered questions the police are ignoring. The public, the press, and even pose family and friends except the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end as a drunkard. Body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The dust jacket and book are in very good condition.īaltimore, 1849. The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl is a 370-page hardcover published in 2006 by Random House and is a stated first edition.
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