The Poe Shadow

Name: The Poe Shadow
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 1.95 (20 reviews)
Author: Matthew Pearl
ISBN: 9780743555791

Author: Matthew Pearl

Narrator: Erik Singer

Abridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 05/23/2006

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

INCLUDES MATTHEW PEARL'S EXCLUSIVE AUDIO AFTERWORD ON THE TRUTH BEHIND POE'S DEATH!

Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. Everyone seems to accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end -- except for a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who puts his own career and reputation at risk in a crusade to salvage Poe's.

As Quentin explores the puzzling circumstances and unanswered questions of Poe's demise, he realizes that he must find the one person who can help: the real-life model for Poe's brilliant fictional detective character, C. Augustine Dupin, the hero of ingenious tales of crime and detection. Soon Quentin finds himself enmeshed in sinister machinations involving international political agents and the lost secrets of Poe's final hours, and must himself turn master investigator to escape Poe's grisly fate.

Drawing on original, groundbreaking research, the bestselling author of The Dante Club has once again crossed literary history with sublime craftsmanship and devious twists to create a beautifully detailed, ingeniously plotted tale of suspense.

About Matthew Pearl

Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante's Inferno (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allen Poe's The Murder in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales. The Dante Club has been published in more than thirty languages and forty countries around the world. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He can be reached via his website, www.matthewpearl.com.

About Erik Singer

Erik Singer's theatrical credits include the title role in The Hostage, A Life in the Theatre, Greetings, Stones in His Pockets, national tours of Othello and The Taming of the Shrew, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, and The Tempest. TV credits include All My Children and As the World Turns, and the A&E Biography as Vincent Van Gogh. Other audiobooks include The Dogs of Babel, and The Five People You Meet In Heaven.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brooke on September 01, 2007

Matthew Pearl's The Poe Shadow is the first book I've read in a while that I did not like at all. The premise is interesting; a contemporary of Edgar Allen Poe attempts to discover what happened in the final days before the poet's death. Pearl had written the moderately entertaining The Dante Club p......more

Goodreads review by Jake on March 18, 2009

It seems that I am outnumbered here in the reviews. I really enjoyed this book a lot. Many readers are commenting that The Poe Shadow is not as good as The Dante Club. Sure, a serial killer on the loose in Boston is compelling stuff. Graphic murder and mayhem trumps an intellectual mystery in Baltim......more

Goodreads review by PUMPKINHEAD on October 22, 2016

Like all good horror aficionados, I consider myself a Edgar Allen Poe fan as much as the next man/woman. The iconic author set so much foundation for the dark genres we love and enjoy today. So I was instantly intrigued when this book blipped on my radar. A mystery surrounding the death of the great......more

Goodreads review by Gina on June 09, 2008

While this was an interesting subject & the mystery surrounding Poe's death was written well, I HATED the lead character. He was whiney, obsessive and at times down right stupid. He's one of those guys with book smarts, but is dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to real life. He is obsessive to the......more

Goodreads review by Tessa on February 22, 2020

O carte cu un subiect foarte interesant pe care am inceput s-o citesc avand foarte multe asteptari. Romanul promite a face lumina asupra misterioasei morti a celebrului scriitor Edgar Allan Poe. Acesta a murit la varsta de 40 de ani intr-un spital din Baltimore in 1849 fiind anterior gasit intr-o si......more

Quotes

"A compelling thriller centered on the mysterious end of Edgar Allen Poe." -- Publishers Weekly