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Mysteries: Poe's death, and a novel about it.(writer Edgar Allan Poe)
From: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
Date: 20060601
Author:Hiltbrand, David
Byline: David Hiltbrand
Jun. 1--American literary history might have been incalculably richer if only Edgar Allan Poe had made it to Philadelphia.
The renowned author and poet, who is generally credited with creating the mystery genre, was en route from Richmond, Va., to the City of Brotherly Love when he died in Baltimore, at age 40, under baffling circumstances.
His sudden and confounding death in 1849 is a literary enigma that Matthew Pearl tackles in his new novel, The Poe Shadow, a remarkable blend of scholarly research and imagination.
"We know for certain ...
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