The Name of Annabel Lee

Annabel Lee is the love of Dudley Potter's life, until he discovers the haunting echoes of her namesake.

Unlucky in love and estranged from his family, Professor Dudley Potter's only desire is to withdraw into the secure realm of seventeenth-century poetry. But his unexpected, passionate love for a woman named Annabel Lee changes all that; her sudden disappearance and his obsession with finding her again shatter his sheltered world. Dudley's desperate pursuit takes him to unknown and treacherous worlds: Boston's porno district, the uneasy home of a friend with an "open" marriage, the stark Yorkshire coast where Annabel's mother built a strange memorial to a tortured poet, and the bizarre House of Usher in New York City. And Julian Symons takes his readers, to heights of suspense that only a master of the craft can reach.