Murder in the Poe Room

Author, University of Virginia professor emerita, and former chair of the Charlottesville Democratic committee, Mary Alice Gunter held a book signing on September 24, 2003 in the Jefferson Society Room on the West Range, just down from the newly installed Edgar Allan Poe historical marker.

"A murder is committed in the historic Poe Room at the University of Virginia involving a poisoned bottle of Amontillado wine and Poe’s poem, The Raven. Ellen Randolph, a member of Virginia’s aristocracy, and her friend Fannie Groomes, an African-American domestic, gradually unravel the tangled web of this murder and another committed many years before when a body was sealed behind a wall in one of the heat tunnels that run underneath the University grounds. Ellen and her friend Martin Harrison, a retired English professor, come close to losing their lives as the murderer tries to conceal lying, cheating, stealing, blackmail, and murder."

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