
Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru is released into the Wild in the U.S.
Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru (hardback edition) is released today, 8 May, in the USA, an interesting launch date choice as it is also the anniversary of the 1844 burning of St. Augustine Church in Philadelphia, which is a key location in the novel. The story takes place just before Edgar Allan Poe, his wife Virginia, and his mother-in-law Maria Clemm moved to New York in early April 1844. In the preceding months, nativists or 'native Americans' — settlers born in the