My Clockwork Muse

New York City, 1847: Someone is committing murders in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of terror. When a corpse is found interred in a masonry wall in a subterranean chamber, the police call on Poe himself to help solve the crime. But when the famous author applies his powers of detection to the murder, he finds that the clues lead in only one direction: to Poe himself.