Edgar Allan Poe Is, for Literary Detectives, a Case That Never Gets Cold
Here is a biography that does not purport to solve the mystery of its subject’s death but to make the mystery more mysterious.
‘A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe’
By Mark Dawidziak
St. Martin’s Press, 288 pages
There will never be enough biographies of Edgar Allan Poe, as Mark Dawidziak’s title suggests. Here is a biography that does not purport to solve the mystery of its subject’s death but to make the mystery more mysterious: A delirious Poe was discovered at Baltimore on October 3, 1849, and died four days later, unable to give an account of what had happened to him.
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