Tess Monaghan Mysteries (Paperback) In a Strange City, (Paperback)

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Every year in real life a mysterious figure leaves roses and a half bottle of cognac on Edgar Allan Poe's grave in Baltimore. Author Lippman builds a murder mystery around this event, wherein series sleuth Tess Monaghan finds herself in the middle of a most bewilding set of circumstances. Likely ...

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Every year in real life a mysterious figure leaves roses and a half bottle of cognac on Edgar Allan Poe's grave in Baltimore. Author Lippman builds a murder mystery around this event, wherein series sleuth Tess Monaghan finds herself in the middle of a most bewilding set of circumstances. Likely ...

from AliceAnna

Yes, this was a mystery, but it was more of a love letter to Baltimore than anything else. Lippman had fun with this one, capitalizing on the Baltimore ties to Edgar Allan Poe, but also highlighting her love for all the quirkiness of the "Tiny Town" she calls home. Unfortunately, I felt like the ...

from EmScape

PI Tess Monaghan gets drawn into a mystery involving Baltimore's famous "Poe Toaster", several murders and some possibly priceless "Baltimore-bilia". Cheers to Lippmann for writing with authenticity, involving a flawed and genuine main character, fascinating secondary characters, and an eventual ...

from nbmars

This is the sixth book in the Tess Monahan detective series about a thirty-one year old private investigator in Baltimore. The story is centered around Baltimore aficionados of Edgar Allan Poe, who was born in Boston in 1809 but died in Baltimore in 1849. (It was also in Baltimore that Poe marrie...