...Temporarily, at least. And not here. Today I'm guest-posting over at that lethally interesting blog, Executed Today. I'm exploring a sordid little mystery from 1876: Was Mary Stanley's death the result of natural causes, criminal neglect...or murder? (And, yes, there is a Poe connection.)
Hope you like it.
Samuel S. Osgood Portrait of Poe, c.1845
(Photo: "Unforth")
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