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The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
3.0

I really enjoyed Pearl's first book, The Dante Club, and this one kept me reading but I didn't like it as much. It didn't grab me or seem as smoothly plotted/written to me as Pearl's first novel. I do recommend it to fans of historical fiction/mysteries and to Poe fans. Customers at the bookstore have come back to tell me they really enjoyed it. I much preferred it to The Pale Blue Eye by Bayard.