Edgar Allan Poe and The Empire of the Dead
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'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.'
Karen Lee Street, ktorá teraz žije v Austrálii, čerpá zo svojich raných rokov v strašidelnom pensylvánskom statku, odkiaľ pramení náznaky gotiky, ktoré presakujú do jej tvorby. Jej kriticky uznávané historické detektívky sledujú dobrodružstvá Edgara Allana Poea a C. Augusta Dupina pri riešení dávnych zločinov a záhad. Jej príbehy sú pretkané atmosférou, tajomstvom a občasnou zbraňou, ktorá sa objaví v najmenej očakávanú chvíľu.



'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.'
In this reimagined mystery, Poe and his fictional detective Dupin are friends who solve crimes together. Among anti-immigrant upheaval in Philadelphia in 1844, they are mystified by the arrival of a package of mummified bird parts and a young heiress in distress.
What if the great detective C. Auguste Dupin was not Edgar Allan Poe's fictional creation, but his friend?