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FICTION; A mystery inside an enigma; an atmospheric thriller swirls around the young Edgar Allan Poe.(VARIETY)(BOOKS MIDWEEK)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20040303
Author:Smith, Jarrett

Byline: Jarrett Smith; Staff Writer

If you are the kind of reader who is put off by books that have family trees at the beginning, consider yourself forewarned.

But if you are the kind of reader whose heart beats faster when you encounter words such as "codicil," "widow's weeds" and "reticule," read on.

"An Upardonable Crime" by Andrew Taylor (published in England as "The American Boy") contains all of the above.

Taylor has concocted a moody, delightfully Gothic thriller woven around the five years that Edgar Allan Poe spent in England as a boy. It also is ...

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