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After losing her mother to a terrorist attack, Alexandra Poe was devastated when her father - disgraced and accused of treason - disappeared from the face of the earth. Now, over ten years and a stint in Iraq later, Alex is approached by a man who has information about her father and wants to help her find him. But there's a catch.

Si crees que sabes lo que va a pasar a continuación es porque estás exactamente donde él quiere que estés... Es Navidad y un asesino en serie deja a la vista partes del cuerpo de su última víctima por todo Cumbria. Un extraño mensaje aparece en cada escena del crimen: # BSC6. Washington Poe y Tilly Bradshaw, de la Agencia Nacional contra el Crimen, se enfrentan a un caso que no tiene sentido. ¿Por qué algunas víctimas fueron anestesiadas, mientras que otras murieron en una agonía espantosa?

After an op in Istanbul goes sour, all Alexandra Poe wants is a little down time, and a chance to finally sell off the family vacation home in Key Largo which carries too many painful memories. Instead, she finds herself on a private Bahamian island, working with Deuce and Cooper to relieve a human rodent of some very sensitive codes, and to take down one of the world's most notorious terrorists. Just another job for Stonewell International. Or is it?

Después de sorprendernos con los cuatro títulos de la Saga Casasola y con los cuentos que conforman la Trilogía del Terror, Bernardo Esquinca nos entrega una novela que expande los límites y paisajes de su escritura. En un ejercicio audaz que es a la vez homenaje y acercamiento, Edgar Allan Poe, el padre del relato policiaco y del cuento de terror norteamericanos, se muestra en estas páginas como un ser humano, todavía lejos de la grandeza que lo consagraría y del abismo que lo consumiría.

Shaken by the death of his beloved wife and wrestling with powerful personal demons, Professor Gabriel McKenna leaves New York City for New Mexico to claim an inheritance from mysterious distant relatives. He finds something other than a Land of Enchantment. Unseen enemies threaten his life. Old friends turn up and rally to his side. Together they plunge into a lethal struggle for a 19th century treasure, the fabled Lost Adams gold.

El sargento Washington Poe está en la corte, luchando contra el desalojo de su amada y aislada granja, cuando lo citan a un burdel callejero en Carlisle, donde un hombre ha sido asesinado a golpes con un bate de béisbol. Todo hace indicar que es un simple asesinato por parte de un proxeneta, pero su asistencia fue solicitada personalmente, por el tipo de personas que prefieren permanecer en las sombras.

Detective Bat Poe has been a cop for a long time, and it would appear that there is nothing he can’t handle. But when he is rendered unfit for duty by a bump on the head during a routine drug bust, that illusion dissolves. Effectively put out to pasture, Bat finds himself at the tail end of his career spending his days on what he considers a useless endeavor: training a police dog. Just when it looks as if he’ll never be good for anything again, he teams up with another dishonored cop, and together they embark on what might be Bat’s greatest adventure.

There comes a time in some investigations where a cop should do the smart thing and cut his losses. The problem Detectives Bat Poe and Fran Gomez have is that they’re many miles beyond that point, and never noticed when it passed. They’re stuck chasing a gang of drug dealers they’ve been after for years and have finally pushed things to the point where failure might cost them their careers and lives. Join them on the bad guys’ trail in the summer of 1978, as what should have been a routine case devolves into a study in vendetta and survival.

All things must come to an end, and Bat Poe is nearing his. Retired to Montana, Bat is finding his twilight years to be something of a drag. Most of Bat’s friends, coworkers, and even enemies have passed away.

A detective’s job is to learn the truth - but in 1983 Los Angeles, narcotics detectives Bat Poe and Fran Gomez are having a hard time even figuring out what’s real, much less true. After having one of their suspects disappear in a mysterious jailbreak, they find themselves cast into a world of espionage, and international intrigue that is a long way from an LA cop’s job description. Come along as they wager their careers, and lives, on the streets of the City of Angels, and the runways of LAX.

During his twilight years, the French author Jules Verne (1828-1905) wrote two original sequels to books that had fired his own youthful imagination but which he felt to be incomplete: Johann Wyss's Swiss Family Robinson and Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Arthur Gordon Pym (1845) was only one of many Poe stories which Verne admired; no other single author had more impact on his writing.

Der schwermütige Edgar Alan Poe ringt damit nicht wieder zum Alkoholiker zu werden. Als er eines Abends in einem Pariser Nachtklub rückfällig wird, lernt er die wunderschöne Sängerin Sandrine kennen, in die er sich Hals über Kopf verliebt. Schnell wird ihm klar, dass Sandrine die Braut eines gefürchteten Pariser Verbrecherkönigs ist. Er will sie aus dessen Klauen befreien und ignoriert Dupins Einwände und Zweifel. Doch als er zu Sandrines "Rettung" eilt, findet er lediglich die Leiche des ermordeten Bandenchefs vor und wird prompt als vermeintlicher Täter verhaftet.

C. Auguste Dupin und Edgar Allan Poe halten sich in einem kleinen Dorf in der Provence auf, das urplötzlich von einer wahren Rattenplage heimgesucht wird. Bald zeigen die ersten Menschen Symptome, die auf die Rückkehr der Pest schließen lassen. Eine unheimliche "Brigade" aus vermummten Kuttenträgern hält die Bürger davon ab, das Dorf zu verlassen - aus Gründen der "Quarantäne". Poe und Dupin sind mit eingeschlossen und versuchen das perfide Spiel zu vereiteln.