When the body of a suicide victim disappears at West Point Military Academy in 1831, only to be discovered hours later missing its heart, the Academy calls on retired detective Gus Landor to investigate. Landor is something of a legend among his peers, noted for an uncanny, Sherlock Holmes-like ability to read people. When Edgar Allan Poe, a new cadet, comes forth with his own cryptic conclusion-that the man Landor is looking for is a poet-Landor is intrigued and enlists Poe as his assistant. Working together, Landor and Poe narrow down the suspects, all the while dealing with their own personal demons.
Investigator Gus Landor tells how in 1831 he investigated a ghastly murder with ritual overtones at West Point, enlisting the aid of an eccentric young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe. Unlike Landor, the listener knows that the dissolute alcoholic youth will one day invent the detective story. Therein lies the central intrigue of this novel, the reason you'd buy or rent this title. What keeps you listening is the nuanced, imaginative performance of Charles Leggett. He makes you forgive his hit-or-miss Southern accent and the author's anachronisms by virtue of his total immersion in the material, which he keeps fresh and surprising. Leggett has the potential to mature into a master narrator. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Louis Bayard is the author of Mr. Timothy, available as a Sound Library® audiobook. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Nerve.com, and Salon.com, among others.
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