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An Agatha, Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Ohioana Award nominee!*A 2024 Edgar Award Nominee*
"A biography that reads like a gripping, well-reported feature story.... [Dawidziak's] informed enthusiasm sweeps the reader irresistibly along." -The Washington Post "Part high-speed tour of Poe's tumultuous career and part cold-case investigation of his premature and enigmatic end." -Wall Street Journal