Poe and Dupin return for another addictive historical mystery
âDeliciously morbid...full of shuddersome gothic effectsâ Ripperologist magazine
Philadelphia, early 1844. As violent tensions escalate between ânativistsâ and recent Irish immigrants, Edgar Allan Poeâs fears for the safety of his wife Virginia and mother-in-law Muddy are compounded when he receives a parcel of mummified bird parts. Could his nemesis have returned to settle an old score?
Just as odd is the arrival of Helena Loddiges, a young heiress who demands Poeâs help to discover why her lover died at the cityâs docks on his return from an expedition to Peru. Poe is sceptical of her claims to receive messages from birds and visitations from her loverâs ghost. But when Miss Loddiges is kidnapped, he and his friend C. Auguste Dupin must unravel a mystery involving old enemies, lost soulmates, ornithomancy, and the legendary jewel of Peru.
