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The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel (P.S.)
Louis Bayard
Harper Perennial
June 2007
On Sale: June 12, 2007
448 pages ISBN: 0060733985 EAN: 9780060733988 Paperback
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At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October
evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's
body swinging from a rope. The next morning, an even
greater horror comes to light. Someone has removed the dead
man's heart. Augustus Landor—who acquired some renown in
his years as a New York City police detective—is called in
to discreetly investigate. It's a baffling case Landor must
pursue in secret, for the scandal could do irreparable
damage to the fledgling institution. But he finds help from
an unexpected ally—a moody, young cadet with a penchant for
drink, two volumes of poetry to his name, and a murky past
that changes from telling to telling. The strange and
haunted Southern poet for whom Landor develops a fatherly
affection, is named Edgar Allan Poe.
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