An Unpardonable Crime

A student in early 1800s England, a young Edgar Allan Poe and his schoolmaster become caught up in an intricate series of bizarre and violent events--including a bank collapse, a flirtatious young heiress, and a horrific mutilation murder--that has its origins in the New World and a bitter episode of corruption during the War of 1812. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.