Fans of Pearl's bestselling debut, The Dante Club (2003), will eagerly embrace his second novel, a compelling thriller centered on the mysterious end of Edgar Allan Poe, who perished in Baltimore in ...

Matthew Pearl is the author of the bestselling novel The Dante Club. His latest novel, The Poe Shadow, is a thriller centered around the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe. He has also edited and ...

The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl 370pp, Harvill Secker, £12.99 The thriller writer Robert Ludlum pioneered a style of title-branding which used an emphatic definite article followed by a mysterious ...

I picked up Matthew Pearl's "The Poe Shadow" partly because I was born and raised in Baltimore, and the tiny cemetery where Edgar Allan Poe is buried was directly behind the hotel my father managed.

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Pearl's second historical thriller involving literary figures (after 2003's The Dante Club) is set in 1849, when young lawyer Quentin Clark's desire to burnish the tarnished reputation of his favorite ...