TY - SER
KW - teenagers
KW - Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49)
KW - murder
AU - Randall Silvis
AB - In 1847 Edgar Allan Poe, whose child-wife had just died, drifts off both melancholic and soused for a lucrative lecture tour in Pittsburgh. With his protégé Augie Dubbins, the book’s 17-year-old narrator, Poe travels by train and canal boat to reach the mansion of his wealthy Pittsburgh host, Dr. Alfred Brunrichter, who is an admirer of Poe’s writing. At the same time, six young women have disappeared from the streets of Pittsburgh. Dubbins and Poe set out to investigate the murders.
C1 - 1847
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; North Side; Allegheny Center; Western Penitentiary (1826)
C4 - Mystery; Thriller; Historical
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - In 2004, <em>Disquiet Heart</em> was republished as a mass market paperback under the new title of <em>Doubly Dead</em>.
N2 - In 1847 Edgar Allan Poe, whose child-wife had just died, drifts off both melancholic and soused for a lucrative lecture tour in Pittsburgh. With his protégé Augie Dubbins, the book’s 17-year-old narrator, Poe travels by train and canal boat to reach the mansion of his wealthy Pittsburgh host, Dr. Alfred Brunrichter, who is an admirer of Poe’s writing. At the same time, six young women have disappeared from the streets of Pittsburgh. Dubbins and Poe set out to investigate the murders.
PB - Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Minotaur
PP - New York
PY - 2002
RN - Randall Silvis (1950— ), born in Madison Twp., Clarion County and educated at Clarion University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, is a novelist and playwright. He won the 1984 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Short Fiction.
EP - 322 p.
TI - Disquiet Heart
ER -