The Poet and the Murderer
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The Poet and the Murderer

A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery (Text Only)

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eBook - ePub

The Poet and the Murderer

A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery (Text Only)

About this book

The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby’s in 1997. The author’s detective work led him across America to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world’s greatest literary forger, Mark Hofmann, is serving a life sentence for double murder.

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Information

Publisher
Fourth Estate
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781841155876
eBook ISBN
9780007440313

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Prologue: The Poet and the Murderer
  7. Chapter 1: Emily Dickinson for Sale
  8. Chapter 2: A Riddle in a Locked Box
  9. Chapter 3: A Search for Truth
  10. Chapter 4: Auction Artifice
  11. Chapter 5: In the Land of Urim and Thummim
  12. Chapter 6: The Forger and His Mark
  13. Chapter 7: The Magic Man
  14. Chapter 8: The Art of Forgery
  15. Chapter 9: The Salamander Letter
  16. Chapter 10: Isochrony
  17. Chapter 11: The Myth of Amherst
  18. Chapter 12: The Oath of a Freeman
  19. Chapter 13: A Dirty, Nasty, Filthy Affair
  20. Chapter 14: The Kill Radius
  21. Chapter 15: Cracked Ink
  22. Chapter 16: Victims
  23. Chapter 17: A Spider in an Ocean of Air
  24. Epilogue: Homestead
  25. Acknowledgements
  26. About the Author
  27. Copyright
  28. About the Publisher