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Case File No. 031 · PDF ebook · 28 pages

The Strange Death of Edgar Allan Poe

Four Days in Baltimore, 1849

Found delirious in another man's clothes on election day. The note, the letters, the doctor's changing story, the grave.

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Why it's worth it

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8 evidence exhibits
Real photographs, maps, paintings and newspapers, shown large, with what to look for in each.
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2 maps drawn for this file
Poe's last journey, and Baltimore in 1849 pinned on a real 1846 city plan.
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6 stories the video skipped
Fact-checked details, from 'Annabel Lee' in his obituary to the missing trunk.
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The original words
The 1849 note and family letters, Dr Moran's accounts and Griswold's obituary, with plain-English notes.
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Printable replicas
Doré's 1884 'Raven' and Harry Clarke's Poe illustrations, ready to print and cut out.
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Large-print edition included
Two PDFs, plus every source and image credit listed.

Inside this file

  • The case in one page, and a timeline from 1809 to the last Poe Toaster visit in 2009
  • Exhibits: the last 1849 portraits, Mitchell's 1846 Baltimore map, Bingham's County Election, the Tribune obituary, Griswold's 1850 edition, the first grave, the monument, the cognac and roses
  • Original words: Walker's note, the family's letters, Dr Moran's changing story, Griswold's 'Ludwig' obituary
  • Persons of interest: Virginia, Maria Clemm, Elmira Shelton, Griswold, Neilson Poe, Moran, Snodgrass, J. N. Reynolds
  • Seven theories, weighed: cooping, drink, rabies, tumour, coal gas, murder, illness
  • Myth vs. record: the gutter, the 'death certificate', the runaway train, the 1949 Toaster
  • Visit it today: Westminster burying ground, the hospital site, the Poe House, Poe Cottage
  • Case closed? Our verdict, and every source with links

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