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Speakers of the Dead is a mystery novel centering about the investigative exploits of a young Walt Whitman, where the reporter-cum-poet navigates the seedy underbelly of New York City's body-snatching industry so that they can exonerate his friend of an wrongful murder charge. The year is 1843; the area: NEW YORK. Aurora reporter Walt Whitman arrives at the Tombs prison backyard, where his friend, Lena Stowe, is slated to hold for the murder of her spouse, Abraham. Walt intends to present evidence on Lena's behalf, but Sheriff Harris converts him away. Lena drops to her fatality, and Walt vows to posthumously exonerate her. Walt's estranged sweetheart, Henry Saunders, earnings to New York, and both men uncover a link between body snatching and Abraham's murder: a guy named Samuel Clement. To get to Clement, Walt and Henry descend into an unhealthy underworld where resurrection men take the physiques of the lately deceased and sell them to medical colleges. With no legal means to acquire cadavers, medical students count on these crooks, and Abraham's participation with the Bone Bill - legislation that could put the resurrection men out of business - appears to have led to his and Lena's deaths. Overly busy and gripping, Speakers of the Dead is a captivating reimagining of one of America's most cherished literary figures.
