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Poe fans -- and Hawthorne fans as well -- might want to check out  this article  on Smithsonian.com

Entitled "A Murder In Salem" -- though the same article in Smithsonian this month has the catchier title of "the Tell-Tale Murder" -- it discusses  the brutal killing of one Capt. Joseph White of Salem in 1830, and the inspiration thus provided for works by both Edgar Allen Poe ( "The Tell-Tale Heart") and Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables) .   Plenty of details here for those interested in the history of forensic science, too!

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