Los crímenes de la academia

At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October afternoon is shattered by the discovery of the body of a young cadet hanging from a rope just off the parade ground. An apparent suicide is not unheard of in a regime as harsh as West Point's, but the next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone sneaked into the room where the body lay and removed the heart. With no answers and desperate to avoid any negative publicity, the Academy enlists the services of a local civilian, Augustus Landor, a former police detective who made a name for himself during his years in New York City before retiring to the Hudson Highlands for reasons of health. Now a widower and restless in his seclusion, Landor agrees to take on the case. While questioning the dead man's acquaintances, he finds an eager assistant in a scheming, moody young cadet with a penchant for drink, two volumes of poetry to his name, and a murky past that changes from story to story. The cadet's name? Edgar Allan Poe. Impressed with Poe's astute powers of observation, Landor is convinced that the poet can prove useful, if he can stay sober long enough to test his keen reasoning skills. Working closely, the two men, generationally separated but equally intelligent, develop a surprisingly deep relationship as their investigation leads them into a hidden world of secret societies, ritual sacrifices and more bodies. Soon, however, the macabre murders and Landor's own buried secrets threaten to tear the two men and their newly formed friendship apart.