Edgar Allan Poe and the London monster
By: Karen Lee Street
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books; Pegasus Crime
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781681772202
Subjects: Family secrets; Fiction; History
Description: Summer, 1840. Edgar Allan Poe sails from Philadelphia to London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin, with the hope that the great detective will help him solve a family mystery. For Poe has inherited a mahogany box containing a collection of letters allegedly written by his grandparents, Elizabeth and Henry Arnold. The Arnolds were actors who struggled to make a living on the London stage, but the mysterious letters suggest that the couple has a more clandestine and nefarious lifestyle, stalking well-to-do young women at night, to slice their clothing and derrieres. Poe hopes to prove the missives forgeries; Dupin wonders if perhaps they are real, but their content fantasy. Soon Poe is being stalked by someone who knows far more about his grandparents and their crimes than he does. And then he remembers disturbing attacks made upon him as a child in London--could the perpetrators be connected?
Notes: "A Poe and Dupin mystery"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-372).