From the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy comes an ingenious tale of murder and revenge, featuring a retired New York City detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe. </p>
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. </p>
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. </p>
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. </p>
A rich tapestry of fine prose and intricately detailed characters, The Pale Blue Eye transports readers into a labyrinth of the unknown that will leave them guessing until the very end. </p>
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評分路易斯·貝雅德(Louis Bayared):《淡藍色眼眸》(The Pale Blue Eye) 同誌作傢貝雅德的第4部小說著作,竟然將埃德加·愛倫·坡寫作瞭小說主角。 十九世紀三十年代,在西點軍校裏,一名學生莫名吊死在閱兵場上,其後又發生瞭更為可怖的事情,停屍的房間被人破門而入,掏走瞭...
評分路易斯·貝雅德(Louis Bayared):《淡藍色眼眸》(The Pale Blue Eye) 同誌作傢貝雅德的第4部小說著作,竟然將埃德加·愛倫·坡寫作瞭小說主角。 十九世紀三十年代,在西點軍校裏,一名學生莫名吊死在閱兵場上,其後又發生瞭更為可怖的事情,停屍的房間被人破門而入,掏走瞭...
評分路易斯·貝雅德(Louis Bayared):《淡藍色眼眸》(The Pale Blue Eye) 同誌作傢貝雅德的第4部小說著作,竟然將埃德加·愛倫·坡寫作瞭小說主角。 十九世紀三十年代,在西點軍校裏,一名學生莫名吊死在閱兵場上,其後又發生瞭更為可怖的事情,停屍的房間被人破門而入,掏走瞭...
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