Edgar Allan PO and Peruvian treasure. Lee Street K.

USA, Philadelphia, 1844

The enmity between American Nativists and recent immigrants from Ireland is growing day by day. The fears of Edgar Allan for the safety of his wife, Virginia, and mother -in -law, Maddy, are exacerbated by a strange package - a box with mummified and dissected Bird's corpses. Is the sworn enemy really returned in order to reduce the old scores with him?

, an arrival in Philadelphia Helen Loddijs, the young heiress of a considerable state, and her request, is no less strange. Returning from the Peruvian expedition, Miss Loddijs's lover died in the Port of Philadelphia, and she wants to find out the reason for his death.

, to her stories about the warnings allegedly received from birds, and about the visit of the beloved software is extremely skeptical, but Miss Loddidjs is abducted, and now the writer with the help of a friend, Chevali of Auguste Dupin, has to unravel a ball of secrets, to unravel the ball of secrets In which a long -standing enmity, the death of a sincere friend, ornithomania and the legendary Peruvian treasure were closely intertwined.