Imagine Sir Arthur Conan Doyle meeting Harry Houdini in
1920s New York City, and a bizarre string of murders takes place. A madman is
murdering people by using the works of Edgar Allan Poe as inspiration. Every
grotesque murder seems more inexplicable than the last. Is there some sort of
pattern? To top it all off, Houdini and Conan Doyle are in the middle of their
famous spat over spiritualism and whether ghosts can be real. How awkward,
then, that the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe keeps showing himself to Conan Doyle!!!
This extremely-awesome idea is the one behind Nevermore, a novel by William
Hjortsberg. I’ve searched for this book for a long time, but with no success,
before finding an edition for the Kindle. Unfortunately, after all the hype,
the book turned out to be a major letdown.
