Poe is fantastic! It’s as if it had been anyway. Since some existed in reality, the contextualization was perfect. The characters are excellent and sophisticated, all of them. In a story full of mystery and haunting, does love and friendship prevail on the hardest evidence? The relationship between them intensifies as the investigations proceed and during these, Poe discovers more than what he sought, seeks the love of his life: the young Lea Marquis, daughter of the doctor of the academy. The staff of the academy find it necessary to ask for Landor’s collaboration for the investigation, which he accepts, eventually hiring an assistant to help him in the case: cadet Edgar Allan Poe, Fourth classman, who had sought him out to tell him that the murderer would be a poet. On the night of October 25, 1830, a cadet appears dead, hanged, whose body is stolen and then mutilated: without a heart. He is the narrator, who, almost dying, decides to tell his story … the true story. Times later, Landor sees himself alone, without family and full of melancholy feelings. The book tells the story of police investigator Augustus Landor, who, due to tuberculosis, has to go to live in the American highlands, near the military academy of West Point. He is also a book reviewer, and a staff writer for and his reviews and articles have been featured in the New York Times, Preservation, the Washington Post and. As a national bestseller author, Louis Bayard has been nominated for both Dagger and Edgar Awards. He is a resident of Washington, DC and lectures at George Washington University about fiction writing. He is a Princeton University undergraduate and a Northwestern University masters graduate. His books have been translated into more than eleven languages.īayard was born in New Mexico and spent his childhood in Northern Virginia.
Louis Bayard is an American author of mystery and thriller novels best known for his historical mystery books including The Black Tower, The Pale Blue Eye, The Roosevelt’s Beast, Mr.
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