Edgar Allan Poe called it "perhaps the most interesting ... an ancient city on whose history books throw but little light. Stela P is a portrait of Butz' Chan (Smoke Snake or Smoke Sky), who ...

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...