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This irresistible literary thriller set in early 1800s England involves a young Edgar Allan Poe and his schoolmaster, who must solve two murders, in settings ranging from the coal-cloaked urban jungle of London to the stark landscapes of rural Gloucestershire.
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"A fluid, atmospheric period thriller…Taylor does an excellent job in portraying early nineteenth-century London and writes in a clear, consistent period style…A pleasurable read that will engross many."
Publishers Weekly
"[This] atmospheric mystery is lots of fun. Simon Vance does a lovely job of making the complex sentences and bygone words of the period writing style easy to listen to... Entirely involving."
AudioFile
"Taylor grabs hold of the nineteenth-century novel and runs…Taylor's sweeping mystery tale is populated by innocents, eccentrics and evildoers whose lives twist, turn and overlap in a brilliantly intricate pattern."
Washington Post