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An Unpardonable Crime
An Unpardonable Crime
Author: Andrew Taylor
Edgar Allan Poe is an American boy in England, a child standing on the edge of mysteries. In 1819, two Americans arrive in London. Soon afterward a bank collapses. A man is found horribly mutilated on a building site and an heiress flirts with her inferiors. All the while, Poe's young schoolmaster struggles to understand what is happening be...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781401301026
ISBN-10: 1401301029
Publication Date: 3/3/2004
Pages: 496
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 10 ratings
Publisher: Theia
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Verywell written murder in England, early 1800's
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England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Charle's beautiful, unhappy mother, Shield becomes caugt up in her family's twisted intrigues.

Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Shield and all that he has come to hold dear. Soon, he is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder, and lies--a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child at the heart of these macabre events---what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allan Poe?

This book is beautifully written, has that "I don't want to put it down" suspense. A great mystery with unsettling, frightening events. Holds you to the very end.
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