{"product_id":"the-poe-shadow-paperback","title":"The Poe Shadow - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Pearl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I present to you . . . the truth about this man's death and my life.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBaltimore, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Pearl\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Last Dickens, The Technologists, The Last Bookaneer, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Dante Chamber, \u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante's \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe's \u003ci\u003eThe Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales\u003c\/i\u003e. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and his nonfiction writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 10, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44304598663270,"sku":"9780812970128","price":28.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/UG9HZnh5SVE5ZGp4Z0ZKd2pQVkhhdz09.webp?v=1767614148","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-poe-shadow-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}