num_pages: 485
description: England, 1819. Two enigmatic Americans arrive in London, and soon after, a bank fails. A man is found dead on a building site; another goes missing in the city's notorious Seven Dials district. A deathbed vigil ends in an act of theft, and a beautiful heiress flirts with her inferiors. A strange destiny connects each of these events to an American boy, Edgar Allan Poe, who was brought to England by his foster father and sent to the leafy village of Stoke Newington to be educated.An Unpardonable Crime is a twenty-first-century novel with a nineteenth-century voice. It is both a multilayered literary murder mystery and a love story, its setting ranging from the coal-scented fogs of late-Regency London to the stark winter landscapes of Gloucestershire. At its center is the boy who does not really belong anywhere, an actor who never learns the significance of his part.
language: English
title: An Unpardonable Crime
titlecomplete: An Unpardonable Crime
characters: Edgar Allan Poe
genres: Fiction, Historical, Gothic, Mystery, Thriller, British Literature, Historical Mystery, Historical Fiction, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 3301
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Barry Award
category: Best British Crime Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Audie Award
category: Literary Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year
publisher: Theia