The Pale Blue Eye – Louis Bayard
Now 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. “Seemlessly 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. At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an ...