NEW YORK (OSV News) The idea of incorporating iconic author Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story, into a whodunit would seem like a winning one. And so it proved for writer Louis Bayard whose 2003 mystery novel The Pale Blue Eye did just that to widespread praise.
In adapting Bayard s work for the screen, moreover, writer-director Scott Cooper, whose eponymous film is currently streaming on Netflix, gets things off to a promising start. He successfully evokes a go