The Mask of Red Death: An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery | Harold Schechter
In the wake of two brutal murders in mid-nineteenth-century Manhattan, a human attraction at P.T. Barnum's American Museum is accused, and writer Edgar Allan Poe, believing in the man's innocence, deduces that an increasingly dangerous killer is responsible. By the author of The Hum Bug and Nevermore. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.