The Poe Shadow Audiobook (Free)

INCLUDES MATTHEW PEARL’S Special AUDIO AFTERWORD ON THE REALITY BEHIND POE’S DEATH!

Baltimore, 1849. Your body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. Everyone appears to accept the final outcome that Poe was a second-rate article writer who fulfilled a disgraceful end — except for a Baltimore lawyer called Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who places his own career and reputation at risk inside a crusade to salvage Poe’s.

As Quentin explores the puzzling conditions and unanswered about The Poe Shadow queries of Poe’s demise, he realizes that he must find the one person who can help: the real-life model for Poe’s outstanding fictional detective personality, C. Augustine Dupin, the hero of clever tales of crime and detection. Quickly Quentin finds himself enmeshed in sinister machinations concerning international political agents and the dropped secrets of Poe’s last hours, and must himself change master investigator to escape Poe’s grisly fate.

Drawing on unique, groundbreaking study, the bestselling author of The Dante Golf club has once again crossed literary history with sublime craftsmanship and devious twists to make a beautifully detailed, ingeniously plotted tale of suspense.