The hum bug
Subtitle: a novel
By: Harold Schechter.
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Fiction; Barnum, P. T. 1810-1891 -- Fiction; Barnum's American Museum -- Fiction; Authors -- Fiction; Museums -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "A young beauty with a shadowy past has been savagely murdered. Her hideous wounds mirror a gruesome tableau in Barnum's wax exhibit dwon to the flawless rose between her lips causing authorities to pinder Barnum's own responsibility. He has no recourse other than to solve the crime himself with the aid of the master of morbid, criminal motivation. Having already achieved a reputation for deductive brilliance by solving Baltimore's notorious "Nevermore Murders," Poe accepts Barnum's challenge."--Jacket.