A Poe and Dupin Mystery series - author   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 A Poe and Dupin Mystery
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Conceived as a trilogy of novels, the first book in the series, Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster was published in 2016. The second novel, Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru (set in Philadelphia in 1844) was published in 2018. The third novel in the trilogy will be Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead (set in Paris in 1849).

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y separately published work icon Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster Karen Lee Street , London : Point Blank , 2017 9562028 2017 single work novel mystery detective

'Summer, 1840. Edgar Allan Poe sails from Philadelphia to London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin, in hope that the great detective will help him solve a family mystery. For Poe 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 played a more clandestine role, stalking well-to-do young women at night, to slice their clothing and derrieres. Poe hopes to prove the missives forgeries; Dupin wonders if they are real, but their content is 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?' (publication blurb)

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y separately published work icon Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru Karen Lee Street , London : Point Blank , 2018 16663610 2018 single work novel historical fiction crime

'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. Has his nemesis returned to settle an old score? 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.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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y separately published work icon Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead Karen Lee Street , London : Point Blank , 2019 22045277 2019 single work novel crime

'“And I prayed that I would find a way to tell my most honorable friend, the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, the truth about how I had finally been murdered and by whom.”—EAP

'Summer, 1849. When Edgar Allan Poe travels to Paris to help his dear friend hunt down the elusive criminal who bought the Dupin family to ruin during the French Revolution, the sleuthing duo are engaged by the prefect of police to recover the stolen letter of an infamous Parisian salonnière.

'Is the thief one of the French literary greats who attend her salons, or might it be Dupin’s own enemy who is scheming to become the Emperor of France? Poe and Dupin are quickly embroiled in a deadly cat and mouse game that takes them to the treacherous tunnels of the city’s necropolis, where few who venture into the notorious Empire of the Dead manage to return from the darkness…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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