Background Information: At the Central Parkway Branch in the Rare Books Collection, youc an visit "Grip" the Raven. Grip is Charles Dickens' pet raven and it was also a minor character in Dickens' historical novel, Barnaby Rudge, published in weekly installments in 1841. Edgar Allen Poe published his poem "The Raven" in 1845. A widely held belief among Poe scholars is that Poe consciously imitated Dicken's raven.
One day, an employee of the Rare Books department came to work and realized that Grip, the raven was missing, Inside the glass case where Grip used to be, there was a ransom note, which read...
