About the book: 2007 / This book, as soon as it came out, caused a storm of reader delight and was nominated for the highest literary awards in the detective genre. Another thing: an investigation into a series of crimes , one after another shaking the peaceful life of the West Point Military Academy, is led not by anyone, but by the great American poet Edgar Allan Poe himself. The crimes are truly out of the ordinary - a mysterious killer leaves behind the corpses of people with their hearts cut out of their chests, and a thin chain of traces of the criminal is lost in medieval Europe…