LEAD: Joel Rose, who once wrote for TV's 'Miami Vice', has gone back to New York City in the summer of 1841. In The Blackest Bird, sixty-nine-year-old High Constable Jacob Hays is investigating a brutal murder. Topping his list of suspects is the writer Edgar Allan Poe..

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END CUE: "...published by Doubleday Canada."