Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru: A Poe and Dupin Mystery (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781681776675)

Edgar Allan Poe and C. Auguste Dupin strive unravel a mystery involving old enemies, lost soul-mates, ornithomancy, and the legendary jewel of Peru.

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.

Author: Karen Lee Street
ISBN-10: 1681776677
ISBN-13: 9781681776675
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2018
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2018 pg. 79
Publishers Weekly 01/29/2018
Booklist 02/15/2018 pg. 31
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2018