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Walt Whitman Mystery
Plume
March 2016
On Sale: March 1, 2016
Featuring: Walt Whitman
312 pages
ISBN: 014312871X
EAN: 9780143128717
Kindle: B010N18IKO
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Mystery Historical
Speakers of the Dead is a mystery novel centering
around the investigative exploits of a young Walt Whitman,
in which the reporter-cum-poet navigates the seedy
underbelly of New York City's body-snatching industry in an
attempt to exonerate his friend of a wrongful murder
charge.
The year is 1843; the place: New York City.
Aurora reporter Walt Whitman arrives at the Tombs
prison yard where his friend Lena Stowe is scheduled to hang
for the murder of her husband, Abraham. Walt intends to
present evidence on Lena's behalf, but Sheriff Harris turns
him away. Lena drops to her death, and Walt vows to
posthumously exonerate her.
Walt's estranged
boyfriend, Henry Saunders, returns to New York, and the two
men uncover a link between body-snatching and Abraham's
murder: a man named Samuel Clement. To get to Clement, Walt
and Henry descend into a dangerous underworld where
resurrection men steal the bodies of the recently deceased
and sell them to medical colleges. With no legal means to
acquire cadavers, medical students rely on these criminals,
and Abraham's involvement with the Bone Bill—legislation
that would put the resurrection men out of business—seems to
have led to his and Lena's deaths.
Fast-paced and
gripping, Speakers of the Dead is a vibrant
reimagining of one of America's most beloved literary figures.
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