About the Book: Speakers Of The Dead: A Walt Whitman Mystery
Lambda Award Winner
Speakers of the Dead is a mystery novel centering around the investigative
exploits of a young Walt Whitman, in which the reporter-cum-poet navigates the
seedy underbelly of New York Citys body-snatching industry in an attempt to
exonerate his friend of a wrongful murder charge.
The year is 1843; the place: New York City. Aurora reporter Walt Whitman
arrives at the Tombs prison yard where his friend Lena Stowe is scheduled to
hang for the murder of her husband, Abraham. Walt intends to present evidence on
Lenas behalf, but Sheriff