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Also by Louis Bayard:

Roosevelt's Beast, January 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The School Of Night, March 2012
Paperback / e-Book
The School of Night, April 2011
Hardcover
The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel (P.S.), June 2007
Paperback
The Pale Blue Eye, June 2006
Hardcover
Mr. Timothy: A Novel, November 2004
Paperback

THE PALE BLUE EYE: A NOVEL (P.S.)
By: 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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