Central Kansas Library System

The Poet: Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime- beat reporter. As the novel opens, Jack's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it seems. But when Jack begins to investigate the phenomenon of police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges, and soon suspects that a serial murderer is at work- a devious cop killer who's left a coast to coast trail of "suicide notes" drawn from the poems of Edgar Allen...