Edgar Allan Poe and The Empire of the Dead
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- 13 ore di lettura
'And I prayed that I would find a way to tell my most honorable friend, the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, the truth about how I had finally been murdered, and by whom.'
La scrittura di Karen Lee Street è intrisa di un tocco gotico, derivante dai suoi primi anni trascorsi in una vecchia casa di campagna scricchiolante. I suoi misteri storici, acclamati dalla critica, vedono protagonisti gli iconici Edgar Allan Poe e C. Auguste Dupin mentre svelano perplessi crimini del passato. Street fonde magistralmente atmosfera e suspense, attirando i lettori in trame intricate che esplorano enigmi duraturi e ambientazioni storiche con un tocco stilistico unico.



'And I prayed that I would find a way to tell my most honorable friend, the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, the truth about how I had finally been murdered, and by whom.'
In this reimagined mystery, Poe and his fictional detective Dupin are friends who solve crimes together. Among anti-immigrant upheaval in Philadelphia in 1844, they are mystified by the arrival of a package of mummified bird parts and a young heiress in distress.
What if the great detective C. Auguste Dupin was not Edgar Allan Poe's fictional creation, but his friend?