Dupin believes the men watched Edmund and Sis and waited until one left. Dupin tells Edmund that he believes two men worked at luring his aunt away and kidnapping Sis. He asks Edmund again about being detained on the street the night of Sis’s disappearance. Dupin tells Edmund that he believes Edmund and Sis were being watched. He never lived in the room but he and another man visited it frequently. Smith and was very particular about which room he wanted. Dupin speaks with the landlord who tells him that the man who rented the room owes her rent. Dupin breaks the door open.Ħ Chapter 5 Edmund finds a pearl from Sis’s shoe. Dupin and Edmund go to the other building and find the room that looks into Edmund’s room. Dupin notices that there is another building right next to the one they are in, with a window to a room facing the window in Edmund’s room. Dupin asks again if Edmund is certain he locked the door when he left Sis Edmund is certain and tells Dupin there are only two keys. Edmund says his aunt was searching for his mother and when she left a few days ago she said she was meeting a man who might be able to help. The message was given to him from Edmund’s mother, who left London a year before. They came because Aunty Pru received a message from a sailor. A piece of paper is slipped under the door.ĥ Chapter 4 Dupin ask Edmund a series of questions where the readers learn that Edmund, Aunty and Sis came to Providence from London a month ago. Dupin stares at the cracks in the ceiling, where he believes he sees pictures and words. Dupin wakes after Edmund has gone to sleep. While Edmund wonders if he should trust Dupin, he thinks how he did not tell Dupin about his stepfather. Edmund breaks the meat pie in half as he thinks about Dupin’s mood swings. Edmund tells Dupin that the dead woman is his aunt but insists the dress she is wearing is not hers.Ĥ Chapter 3 When Edmund returns to the room, Dupin is asleep at the table. She will be buried in the pauper’s field. The dead body is a woman who resembles Edmund. When they arrive, Dupin meets two men, Mr.

While searching for Sis, Edmund meets a man called August Dupin, who offers to help Edmund find his family.ģ Chapter 2 Edmund tells Dupin that he and his sister spend a lot time down by the docks collecting the names of the ships. Out of desperation Edmund decides to go out and search for both his Aunt Pru and food. Edmund and Sis are alone, cold, and starving. It is November 1949, Edmund mother and Aunt Pru are both mysteriously missing. He lives with his Aunt Pru and twin sister (Sis). 2 Prologue and Chapter 1 11 year old, frail, Edmund Brimmer lives in a decrepit tenement (apartment) building on Ann Street in Providence, Rhode Island.

The Man Who Was Poe by Avi