Lambda Award Winner

Speakers of the Deceased is a mystery novel centering around the investigative exploits of a Walt Whitman, in which the reporter-cum-poet navigates the seedy underbelly of New York City’s body-snatching industry so that they can exonerate his friend of a wrongful murder charge.

The year is certainly 1843; the area: NEW YORK. Aurora reporter Walt Whitman finds the Tombs prison backyard where his friend Lena Stowe is definitely scheduled to hold for the murder of her husband, about Speakers of the Dead: A Walt Whitman Mystery Abraham. Walt intends to present proof on Lena’s behalf, but Sheriff Harris changes him aside. Lena drops to her loss of life, and Walt vows to posthumously exonerate her.

Walt’s estranged boyfriend, Henry Saunders, earnings to New York, and both guys uncover a connection between body-snatching and Abraham’s murder: a guy called Samuel Clement. To access Clement, Walt and Henry descend into a dangerous underworld where resurrection guys steal the bodies of the lately deceased and sell these to medical colleges. Without legal methods to acquire cadavers, medical students rely on these bad guys, and Abraham’s participation with the Bone tissue Bill-legislation that would put the resurrection guys out of business-seems to possess resulted in his and Lena’s deaths.

Fast-paced and gripping, Loudspeakers of the Deceased is a vibrant reimagining of one of America’s most much loved literary figures.