Edgar Allan Poe and the jewel of Peru
By: Karen Lee Street
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Series: Poe and Dupin mystery
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781681776675
Subjects: Kidnapping; Investigation; Authors; Murder; Detective and mystery stories; Fiction
Other titles: Jewel of Peru
Description: "Philadelphia, 1844. As violent tensions escalate between nativists and recent Irish immigrants, Edgar Allan Poe's fears for the safety of his wife, Virginia, and mother-in-law, Muddy, are compounded when he receives a parcel of mummified bird parts ... Just as odd is the arrival of Helena Loddiges, a young heiress who demands Poe's help to discover why her lover died at the city's docks on his return from an expedition to Peru. Poe is skeptical of her claims of having received messages from birds--and visitations from her lover's ghost--but when Miss Loddiges is kidnapped, he and his friend C. Auguste Dupin must unravel a mystery involving old enemies, lost soul-mates, ornithomancy, and the legendary jewel of Peru"--Amazon.com.