William Hjortsberg

Nevermore

New York City in the 1920s: a shocking discovery is made of a brutal double murder in a Hell’s Kitchen tenement. The police are baffled, but as the murder rate escalates, each new crime more grotesque than the last, a horrific pattern emerges. The unknown killer is recreating scenes out of the pages of Edgar Allan Poe’s fiction - crimes that until now existed only in the famed author’s macabre imagination.

Meanwhile, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the brilliant creator of Sherlock Holmes, finds himself plagued by visits from Poe’s ghost. And his friend, world-famous escapologist Harry Houdini, may in fact be the murderer’s true target.

Combining pulse-racing action, a cast of famous historical characters and a brilliantly deranged killer, Nevermore is a masterful literary novel of suspense.

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