Edgar Allan Poe is often referred to as the most influential American writer of all time. He pioneered the short story and also wrote the first ever detective novel. But he saved his greatest mystery for last... his death. Why did the greatest writer of his generation go missing for a week, before turning up in another city, wearing clothes that didn't belong to him?
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