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In a Strange City Laura Lippman

In a Strange City By Laura Lippman

In a Strange City by Laura Lippman


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Summary

A rising star in the US, Laura Lippman's sixth thriller to star PI Tess Monaghan explores the strange cult of Edgar Allan Poe.

In a Strange City Summary

In a Strange City by Laura Lippman

A curious little man attempts to hire PI Tess Monaghan to unmask the Visitor (also known as the Poe Toaster), who has been visiting the Baltimore grave of Edgar Allan Poe every year on 19 January for the past fifty years, leaving three red roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac. The man is committing no crime, and Tess refuses the assignment, but she worries that a less scrupulous private detective may take it on. So she goes to the 19 January vigil as an observer. In the freezing darkness she watches as two cloaked figures approach the grave, appear to embrace and then part. As they walk off in different directions, there's a gunshot and one is killed. Tess quickly learns that the dead man is not the regular Visitor. So who is he? And why was he there? When it turns out that Tess's would-be client had given her a fake name, she knows she must try to find him. And when an old friend from her past surfaces, claiming that the shooting was a homophobic hate crime, things only get more complicated ...

About Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman is a reporter and lives in Baltimore. In A Strange City is her sixth novel featuring P.I. Tess Monaghan. Her previous novels are: Baltimore Blues; (nominated for the Shamus Award); Charm City (winner of the Edgar and Shamus Awards); Butchers Hill (winner of the Anthony and Agatha Awards); In Big Trouble (winner of the Anthony and Shamus Awards) and The Sugar House.

Additional information

GOR005009512
9780752841670
075284167X
In a Strange City by Laura Lippman
Used - Good
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
2001-11-15
320
N/A
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