The Poison Place

ISBN-13: 9781416968429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 180 str.

Mary E. Lyons

Opis

Here, in a first-person account, is an historically-based thriller. Did Charles Wilson Peale, world-famous painter, actually murder his eldest son? Room by room, the narrator unfolds the dramatic story of one man's obsession and his cold negligence of its tragic outcome in the setting of Peale's own Philadelphia museum.

Its a stormy night in 1827 when Moses Williams, Charles Wilson Peales former slave, relates his startling account of life within the walls of Peales famous Philadelphia museum. His voice resounding through the empty halls and corridors, Moses leads us through his adolescent friendship and rivalry with Raphael, Peales son; his frustrations at Peales unfulfilled promises of freedom; and his nagging suspicion that Peale may have had a hand in his own sons death.