Edgar Allan Poe. The greatest American writer, a genius of decadence, creator of the detective genre. There were many secrets in Poe's life, among which were the circumstances of his death. How and why did a dying writer end up in a charity hospital? What led him to his tragic end? Many versions of Edgar Allan Poe’s death have been and are being put forward. However, an admirer of Poe’s work, a young lawyer from Baltimore, Quentin Clark, is sure: the writer was killed. Poe had plenty of enemies - envious people, husbands of seduced women, fellow writers whom he mercilessly destroyed in critical articles. Which of them decided to commit a crime? In search answers Clark decides to find in Paris a talented amateur detective, from whom Poe based his favorite hero Dupin - the only one who can solve the mystery of the writer's death!..