Pale Blue Eye

Shockingly clever and devoutly unsentimental...reads like a lost classic. Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction.- New York Times Book ReviewAn 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 October evening is shattered by the discovery ...