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ISBN: 0060733977 (ISBN13: 9780060733971)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Edgar Allan Poe
Setting: West Point, New York(United States)
Literary Awards: Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (2007)
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Rating: 3.73 | 4339 Users | 547 Reviews

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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.

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.

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.

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Title:The Pale Blue Eye
Author:Louis Bayard
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 432 pages
Published:May 23rd 2006 by Harper
Categories:Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Historical Mystery. Thriller. Mystery Thriller

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I was totally clueless to the killer's identity almost to the very end. Aside from being an excellent mystery this is also a very moving story. The inclusion of a famous author as one of the key characters was an added treat.

You can't swing a dead cat these days without hitting a book with historical characters in a fictional setting. And I swing a lot of dead cats, believe me.When it's done well, though, who cares how many of them there are? And Louis Bayard does it well. Fresh off his fine "Mr. Timothy," his look at Dickens' Tiny Tim as an adult (OK, so Tiny Tim wasnt historical, but you get the idea), Bayard threw Edgar Allan Poe into a novel. No, hes not the first (or last) to do this, but "The Pale Blue Eye,"

I'm giving this five stars even though I can't quite help feeling a bit of a cheat at the end. It seemed Mr. Bayard decided at the end who had actually done the crimes and strove mightily (and mostly successfully) to retrofit everything to suit. Even so, a marvelous read, note perfect in most ways, with some surprising grace notes, not least of which the narrator. One of Poe's last stories (really) was a piece called "Landor's Cottage." Reading it, you can almost see all the ghosts.

I was totally clueless to the killer's identity almost to the very end. Aside from being an excellent mystery this is also a very moving story. The inclusion of a famous author as one of the key characters was an added treat.



I don't know what to say.. Haha! Sorry, that seemed like a bad start for a review. And this book even took me a while to finish. Okay here goes;Louis Bayard is not Umberto Eco, who i have liked a lot after reading The Name of the Rose. However, there is something in The Pale Blue Eye that makes you want to scratch your eye out Or maybe just pull your hair off (as this should be less painful). Surely this wasn't the MOST amazing detective story and I would have to agree with some who had reviewed

Audio. There are many well-written reviews of this book on Goodreads. I loved reading the reviews and seeing why people liked this book. I just didn't like it that well. I haven't read a lot of Edgar Allen Poe and although I understand that the language in this book was supposed to be indicative of his style, it was just too wordy and flowery for me. It dragged in too many places and the fun parts were few and far between. It would have been better for me had it all been more like this;"Oh,