A review by nocto
The American Boy by Andrew Taylor

5.0

Fabulous trip back to 1819 in the company of Thomas Shield. He's one of Edgar Allen Poe's schoolmasters and gets involved in the affairs of the Frant family - Charles Frant is the young Edgar Allen's best friend in the book. Murder and intruige of course but it's an unconventional detective story. At times I got a bit wound up with the slow pace the narrator was happy to go along at but on the whole the detail in the story made it well worth reading.