# The Pale Blue Eye

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- Book: [The Pale Blue Eye](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-bayard/the-pale-blue-eye) ([The Pale Blue Eye.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-bayard/the-pale-blue-eye.md))
- Authors: [Louis Bayard](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-bayard)
- Publisher: baskerville
- ISBN: 978-13-9981-005-0
- Published: 2022-12-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

**Now a major Netflix film starring Christian Bale and Gillian Anderson** April 19th, 1831. In two or three hours I'll be dead. So begins the chilling last testament of Gus Landor, a retired New York City police constable, whose numerous talents include code-breaking, riot control and the 'gloveless interrogation'. A young cadet has been found hanged at a military academy on the shores of the Hudson River. Before his body could be buried, however, it was stolen and his heart brutally carved out. Fearing a scandal, the top brass at West Point have summoned Landor to help catch the culprit, and keep his discoveries away from prying eyes. As Landor embarks on a thrilling adventure to solve the case, he uncovers a series of dark secrets and finds unlikely assistance in the form of a mischievous young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe. Full of drama and unexpected twists, The Pale Blue Eye is a brilliantly haunting and atmospheric historical mystery. 👁 'Brilliantly plotted and completely absorbing, ending with the kind of shock that few novelists are able to deliver' Sunday Times 👁 'Bayard's shockingly clever and devoutly unsentimental new mystery reads like a lost classic . . . Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction, rendering the 19th century as if he'd witnessed it firsthand' New York Times