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Soon to be a Netflix film starring Christian Bale, Harry Melling, and Gillian Anderson Shockingly clever and devoutly unsentimental...Reads like a lost classic. Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction. -- New York Times Book Review Seamlessly blends Poe into an engrossing whodunit worthy of its inspiration. -- USA Today An ingenious tale of murder and revenge at West Point, featuring a retired detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe--from the author of Courting Mr. Lincoln. When the body of a suicide victim disappears at West Point Military Academy in 1831, only to be discovered hours later missing its heart, the Academy calls on retired detective Gus Landor to investigate. Landor is something of a legend among his peers, noted for an uncanny, Holmesian ability to read people. When Edgar Allan Poe, a new cadet, comes forth with his own cryptic conclusion--that the man Landor is looking for is a poet--Landor is intrigued and enlists Poe as his assistant. Working together, Landor and Poe narrow down the suspects, all the while dealing with their own personal demons.

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[A] beautifully crafted thriller. -- Publishers Weekly [The novel is] brilliantly plotted and completely absorbing, ending with the kind of shock that few novelists are able to deliver. -- Sunday Times (London) Ingenious...with a rich knowledge of Poe's life and work. -- Entertainment Weekly Poe, an exacting critic...would have been impressed by Bayard's intelligence and fluidity as a writer. -- Oregonian Seamlessly blends Poe into an engrossing whodunit worthy of its inspiration. -- USA Today Shockingly clever and devoutly unsentimental...reads like a lost classic. Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction. -- New York Times Book Review

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Louis Bayard is a critically acclaimed novelist, reviewer, and journalist who has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Salon.com, Ms., Nerve.com, and the Washington, D.C., City Paper. He is the author of The Pale Blue Eye and of Mr. Timothy, a New York Times Notable Book and one of People magazine's ten best books of 2003. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his partner and two sons. Charles Leggett, AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, is based in Seattle where he works onstage at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, ACT, and Seattle Shakespeare Company, among many others. His voice work is also featured in the first two Dungeon Siege video games as well as in Hoyle's Casino Empire.

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