- Fiction, Mystery, Police, United States Military Academy
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.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Bayard, Louis., Louis Bayard
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 412
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton, Murray Press, John, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780719567049
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