In a Strange City
$65.01
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2002
Summary
Every year on the 19th January, for the past fifty years an unknown visitor has left three red roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on the grave of Edgar Allan Poe. When a prospective client asks PI Monaghan to investigate, he refuses, after all, no crime is being committed.
But she does go to the 19th January vigil as an observer. In the freezing darkness she watches as two cloaked figures approach the grave, appear to embrace and then part. The there’s a gunshot and one is k…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780752848105 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0752848100 |
| Author: | Laura Lippman |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 180mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Tess Monaghan Investigation |
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Laura Lippman continues to push the envelope of modern crime-writing
Wonderful … A moving … feast of a book * WASHINGTON POST *If Lippman has her way, Baltimore will be a strange city no longer, but the delight of readers from there to San Diego * KIRKUS *Edgar, Shamus, Anthony and Agatha award winner Lippman (Charm City; Butchers Hill; The Sugar House) pays homage to the inventor of the mystery form in this masterly contemporary mystery, set in Baltimore and replete with her trademark dry, sardonic wit …Lippman shows in this, her sixth novel, that she’s indeed deserving of all the kudos she’s received * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred review *One of the most polished and consistently interesting writers of detective fiction today * THE ECONOMIST *Lippman is a writing powerhouse * USA TODAY *Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master. She is simply a brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now – Gillian FlynnLippman is the closest writer America has to Ruth Rendell – Stephen KingLippman has enriched literature as a whole * CHICAGO SUN-TIMES *Laura Lippman continues to push the envelope of modern crime-writing – Harlan CobenLaura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work – George Pelecanos
About The Author
Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman lives in Baltimore, USA
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