In the Shadow of the Raven

"They are skillful fliers. Oh yes, they can soar to great heights, and can imitate a variety of sounds - including the human voice." He looked at me over the top of his spectacles. "Mrs. Ryan, if I might, is there anything specific about ravens that you need to know?" "Do they have any symbolic meaning of which you are aware?" I said quietly. "Yes, yes indeed," he said, his eyes lighting up... ...and Bridget Ryan has her own reasons for wanting to know. If it had not been for that black feather she had received by post from an old friend - one Edgar Poe - she would never have thought about ravens. But now it was all she could think about. More than a century and a half have passed since Edgar Allan Poe died, alone in Baltimore in 1849, and still no one really knows how - or even why he was in that city. But Bridget knows, and this is her story. Author P.J. Parsons has been a medical and business writer for 20 years. "The Alternative History Series"