Click here to read more from Slate’s “Pulp Fiction” week. In The Dante Club, Pearl wrote about a real club—whose members included such heavily bearded worthies as Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and James ...

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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 ...

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.

To the avid reader of mysteries, a thriller that lingers in the twilight zone of the literary and the historical is an exciting prospect. Matthew Pearl’s second bestseller, The Poe Shadow masters this ...

Two new novels fold elements of literary history into the mystery thriller genre. Fittingly, both books feature the man who created tales of raciocination, the great Edgar Allan Poe. The mystery ...

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Thomas Meaney is a critic whose reviews have appeared in various publications, including the Globe & Mail and the New Criterion. WHEN Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes, young readers in ...

In his novel The Poe Shadow, Matthew Pearl examines the circumstances of Edgar Allan Poe’s actual demise in 1849. Pearl mingles real people in Poe’s life with fictional characters (you can’t tell the ...

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 ...