La sombra de Poe / The Poe Shadow

from thornton37814

Quentin Clark, a Baltimore attorney, is obsessed with Poe's death. He is determined to resolve it with the help of the person who was the basis for Poe's character Dupin. Has he chosen the right Dupin? Will the mystery surrounding Poe's death be resolved? I had difficulty forcing myself to finish...

from bookworm12

Set in Baltimore in the mid-1800s. A young man, Quentin Clark, is a huge fan of Edgar Allan Poe and is distraught when his favorite author dies unexpectedly. Putting his own life on hold he begins to research the man and the mystery, even traveling to Paris to try to find the inspiration for the ...

from willfenton

Ultimately paid off well, but very meandering and a bit frustrating. Main protagonist could not get out of his own way to save his life, for the most part. Very unsympathetic. I did love the incorporation of so much historical fact into the tale, as it was well done and truly gave you a real sens...

from damy

The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl is a fictional work that pretends to solve the mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's death. After the first page into the book, I became convinced that the writer didn't have a good editor. There's a sentence on the first page that makes no sense without the insertion of 2 ...

from LancasterWays

Permit me to begin my review with a confession. (Ha! A clever literary conceit.) I read The Poe Shadow, by Matthew Pearl, after having read his later book, The Last Dickens. I believe this minor action on my part may explain why I favor the latter work in preference to the former, an opinion that...