The Poe Shadow By Matthew Pearl 370 pages. Random House. $24.95 "The Poe Shadow" is best understood as a franchise follow-up to a very clever debut novel. In "The Dante Club," Matthew Pearl combined ...

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 ...

Last year, the writer Matthew Pearl published a novel called The Poe Shadow, in which a young lawyer sets out Last year, the writer Matthew Pearl published a novel called The Poe Shadow, in which a ...

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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"The Poe Shadow" is best understood as a franchise follow-up to a very clever debut novel. In "The Dante Club," Matthew Pearl combined history, mystery and literature into a book that reveled in the ...

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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 ...