The mask of red death
Subtitle: an Edgar Allan Poe mystery
By: Harold Schechter.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Fiction; Johnston, John, ca. 1822-1900 -- Fiction; Indians of North America -- Crimes against -- Fiction; Cannibalism -- Fiction; Trappers -- Fiction; Authors -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In the wake of two brutal murders in mid-nineteenth-century Manhattan, a human attraction at P.T. Barnum's American Museum is accused, and writer Edgar Allan Poe, believing in the man's innocence, deduces that an increasingly dangerous killer is responsible.