by Louis Bayard · Roca Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788496791107
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The Crimes of the Academy is the historical mystery novel by Louis Bayard, published by Roca Editorial in hardback (525 pages, in Spanish).
In 1830, the death of a West Point cadet, whose heart is stolen after his demise, leads the academy's authorities to seek help from Gus Landor, a retired detective. Landor recruits Edgar Allan Poe, then a cadet and poet, as an informant to investigate in secret. The inquiry becomes complicated when more corpses appear and secret societies and rituals come to light, in a gothic atmosphere that demands both use all their deductive ability.
Translation by Enrique Alda of the original The Pale Blue Eye (2006). The edition includes 525 pages and was published in 2007.
Recommended for readers of historical crime fiction and for those who want to see Edgar Allan Poe as a fictional character.
