England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes entwined in their family’s affairs. When a brutal murder takes place in London’s seedy backstreets, it is not certain who either the victim or the killer is. But all clues seem to lead back to the Frant household, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart. And what of the strange American child at the heart of these macabre events – what is the dark secret of the boy named Edgar Allan Poe? Publisher: Harper Perennial Year: 2013 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780007109609 Condition: Good Description: Cover creased. Note: This image is from a stock photo and may differ from the actual cover.
