Murder In The Poe Room
A murder is committed in the historic Poe Room at the University of Virginia involving a poisoned bottle of Amontillado wine and Poe’s poem, The Raven. Ellen Randolph, a member of Virginia’s aristocracy, and her friend Fannie Groomes, an African-American domestic, gradually unravel the tangled web of this murder and another committed many years before when a body was sealed behind a wall in one of the heat tunnels that run underneath the University grounds. Ellen and her friend Martin Harrison, a retired English professor, come close to losing their lives as the murderer tries to conceal lying, cheating, stealing, blackmail, and murder.