Edgar Allan Poe and The Empire of the Dead

Informationen zum Autor Karen Lee Street is a British/American dual national. She has a PhD in Writing from the University of South Wales and has worked for many years in the European film industry. She is the author of Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster and Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru. Klappentext '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.' Summer, 1849.¿When Edgar Allan Poe travels to Paris to help his dear friend hunt down the criminal who brought the Dupin family to ruin during the French Revolution, the sleuthing duo are engaged by the prefect of police to recover the stolen letter of an infamous Parisian salonni¿. Is the thief one of the French literary greats who attend her salons, or might it be Dupin's own enemy who is scheming to become the Emperor of France? Poe and Dupin are quickly embroiled in a deadly cat and mouse game that takes them to the treacherous tunnels of the city's necropolis, where few who venture into the notorious Empire of the Dead manage to return from the darkness... ¿ Zusammenfassung '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.'

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Karen Lee Street, Street Karen Lee
• Verlag: Oneworld
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.10.2019
• EAN: 9781786076410
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-641-0
• Seiten: 352
• Serie: Point Blank
• Themen: Belletristik > Spannung; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, Historical fiction, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, North America, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery fiction, North America (USA and Canada)