• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

The Historical Writers Association

The official website of the HWA

  • Members
  • Awards
  • Events
  • Historia
  • About us
  • Resources
  • Contact
  • Login

Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead

Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead

Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead

28/04/2020 by Karen Lee Street

“And I prayed that I would find a way to tell my most honorable friend, the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, the truth about how I had finally been murdered, and by whom.” Summer, 1849. Edgar Allan Poe has come to Paris to help his friend C. Auguste Dupin hunt down the criminal who brought the Dupin family to ruin during the French Revolution, but the prefect of police engages the sleuthing duo to recover a letter stolen from an infamous Parisian society hostess. Is the thief one of the French literary greats who attend her salons? Or might it be Dupin’s own enemy, who is scheming to become Emperor of France? Poe and Dupin are quickly embroiled in a deadly cat and mouse chase through the notorious streets of the Île de la Cité and into the treacherous tunnels of the city’s necropolis. Poe discovers he has enemies of his own in Paris – and that few who dare to venture into the Empire of the Dead ever return from the darkness… A historical mystery about alchemy, mesmerism and magic, the shadows of the past and the endurance of love.

About the author

  • Karen Lee Street- writer profile

Buy this book

  • Amazon
  • Hive
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Kobo
  • iTunes

Primary Sidebar

Press enquiries

We welcome enquiries from the media and are happy to put you in contact with our members.
Press Enquiries

Join the HWA

Find out more and apply to join
Join Us

Copyright © 2014–2025 Historical Writers Association Log in