The Man Who Was Poe

by Avi

• ISBN13: 9780380711925
• ISBN10: 0380711923
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-08
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

The Old City Lay Dark And Cold... It is night. And Edmund is alone. His mother is gone. His aunt, who went in search of her, is dead. His sister has disappeared. Edmund has no one. Except for a stranger of the night. A dark, mysterious stranger who flees from demons of his own...who follows Edmund with grim determination through the cold and shadow city, promising to help, but often hindering. A stranger who needs Edmund for purpose of his own!

Table of Contents

Prologue	3	(13)
Part One
Might I Know Your Name?	13	(8)
Beneath a Cold November Moon	21	(7)
Steps in the Night	28	(9)
Meddle at Your Peril!	37	(9)
An Old Man with White Hair	46	(9)
The Providence Night Watch	55	(8)
Judgment of Murder	63	(8)
A Perfect Tomb	71	(11)
News of Sis	82	(10)
The One Who Murdered Her	92	(13)
Part Two
Beyond the Cemetery Gate	105	(7)
To See a Ghost	112	(7)
Our Secret Fears	119	(8)
Over the Edge	127	(10)
The Face on the Wall	137	(10)
The Man Who Was Poe	147	(14)
No Detail Too Small	161	(12)
The Woman in the Church	173	(8)
Part Three
The Story	181	(10)
Sunrise	191	(8)
The Chase	199	(11)
The Beginning of the Story	210	(2)
Something about Edgar Allan Poe	212