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Edgar Allen Poe

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ABC greenlit an Edgar Allen Poe pilot:

The crime procedural Poe follows Edgar Allan Poe as the world’s first detective. He employs unorthodox methods to investigate dark mysteries in 1840s Boston. The project will tell how some of Poe’s famous stories came to be, but only some episodes will be about a specific Poe story.

Almost sounds like a sequel to Louis Bayard’s The Pale Blue Eye (my review)

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The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard

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The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard follows in Bayard’s tradition of historical books. Where Mr. Timothy (review) followed the future adventures of a fictional person, The Pale Blue Eye brings us to the past of a real person. In this case, the real person is Edgar Allen Poe during his time in West Point. And it was a surprise to me that Poe was in West Point, but he was indeed there. Since Poe was pivotal in the development of the detective novel, it’s only appropriate that the story has Poe helping out a detective solving a murder…with a twist at the end that is truly unexpected.

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