Nevermore
Brent Monahan
FACT: In 1849, Allan Pinkerton opened the first detective agency in America, becoming famous for guarding the president and infamous for breaking strikes.
FACT: In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, master American author of the macabre, is found incoherent on a bench outside a Baltimore saloon. He died without giving an explanation.
WHAT IF: America's first, true detective seeks to solve the mystery of the death of America's creator of the first fictional detective?
Only one of history's most famous detectives – Allan Pinkerton – could investigate the death of one of fiction’s most famous writers – Edgar Allan Poe. In this fictional imagining of the events following Poe's death, Allan Pinkerton, a real-life embodiment of the famed writer's C. Auguste Dupin, literature's first detective, embarks on a journey into the life and mind of the author and poet to uncover the secrets of Poe's life and untimely – and mysterious – death.Chasing clues and suspects from city to city, Pinkerton pieces together Poe's last days and learns truths about the author – and himself – that threaten Poe's legacy…and literature as we know it.
Solving a crime is easy - exposing the truth is deadly.
No facts about Pinkerton or Poe were altered in this work that explores – and reinforces – the historical and lasting legacy of an American literary icon.