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050 00 $aPS3552.A85864$bP35 2006
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100 1 $aBayard, Louis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98110910
245 14 $aThe pale blue eye :$ba novel /$cLouis Bayard.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins Publishers,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $a412 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"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 just off the parade grounds. An apparent suicide is not unheard of in a harsh regimen like West Point's, but the next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has stolen into the room where the body lay and removed the heart." "At a loss for answers and desperate to avoid any negative publicity, the Academy calls on the services of a local civilian, Augustus Landor, a former police detective who acquired some renown during his years in New York City before retiring to the Hudson Highlands for his health. Now a widower, and restless in his seclusion, Landor agrees to take on the case. As he questions the dead man's acquaintances, he finds an eager assistant in a moody, intriguing 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 cadet's name? Edgar Allan Poe." "Impressed with Poe's astute powers of observation, Landor is convinced that the poet may prove useful - if he can stay sober long enough to put his keen reasoning skills to the task. Working in close contact, the two men - separated by years but alike in intelligence - develop a surprisingly deep rapport as their investigation takes them into a hidden world of secret societies, ritual sacrifices, and more bodies. Soon, however, the macabre murders and Landor's own buried secrets threaten to tear the two men and their newly formed friendship apart."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aPoe, Edgar Allan,$d1809-1849$vFiction.
610 20 $aUnited States Military Academy$vFiction.
651 0 $aWest Point (N.Y.)$vFiction.
650 0 $aPolice$zNew York (State)$zWest Point$vFiction.
655 7 $aMystery fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3552.A85864$iP35 2006