Do not fear for Eddy! the doomed man called out as he boarded a steamship out of Brooklyn. These, among Edgar Allan Poes last words to his family, were spoken to his aunt Maria in June 1849; in October he was found dying in the street in Baltimore, incoherent and dressed in another mans clothing. The irony of his departing words, and the mysterious circumstances of death, all seem rather fitting for the father of the detective story...
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