Join us for an evening dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe. Matthew Pearl’s (The Dante Club) latest bestseller combines literary history with suspense as he follows Baltimore lawyer Quentin Clark, who puts his reputation at risk to salvage Poe’s by finding the one person who can solve the case of Poe’s death: the real-life model for the hero of Poe’s tales of crime and detection, C. Auguste Dupin. Louis Bayard’s The Pale Blue Eye (“[A] beautifully crafted thriller.” Publisher’s Weekly) depicts young Poe during his time at West Point where he joins a former police chief to solve an apparent suicide on campus. But there’s a twist: the body’s heart has been stolen.