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Louis Bayard


Born
Arizona, The United States
Website

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Genre
Mystery & Thrillers

Influences
Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens


A staff writer for Salon.com, Bayard has written articles and reviews for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Nerve.com, and Preservation, among others. Bayard lives in Washington, D.C.

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“I'm a man of a certain age - old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: Never let your name be found in a dead man's trousers.”
― Louis Bayard, The Black Tower
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“Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.”
― Louis Bayard, The Pale Blue Eye
tags: death, heart, murder
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“I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.”
― Louis Bayard, Mr. Timothy
tags: london-city, prostitution, victorian-era
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