Edgar Allan PO and Peruvian Treasure

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, exacerbate a strange package - a box with mummified and dissected birds of birds. Did the sworn enemy return in order to reduce old scores with him? No less strange is the arrival in Philadelphia Helen Loddigs, the young heiress of a considerable state, and her request. Returning from the Peruvian expedition, Beloved Miss Loddijs died in the Philadelphia port, 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, the Chevalier of Auguste Dupin, has to unravel a ball of secrets, in which closely A long -standing enmity, the death of a sincere friend, ornithomania and the legendary Peruvian treasure were intertwined