โ Laura Lippman
๐ Fiction
๐
2001
๐ Avon Books
๐ English
โ 204 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
In a Strange City
โ Scribed by Laura Lippman
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 210 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0061807443
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
It is a treasured Charm City tradition. Every year on Edgar Allan Poe's birthday a figure wrapped in a dark cloak visits the renowned author's Baltimore gravesite and leaves behind three roses and half a bottle of cognac. No Baltimorean worth his or her salt would ever dream of trying to determine the true identity of the "Poe Toaster," thereby possibly destroying a cherished ritual. That's why Tess Monaghan refuses to help the odd, piglike man who wants to hire her to unmask the Visitor, who the Porcine One claims has deceived and cheated him.
If nothing else, the rejected client's story has whetted Tess's curiosity--and so the following evening she and her enthusiastic boyfriend, Crow, are braving the winter chill and the graveyard dark to observe the strange, beloved rite from a respectful distance. But on this particular January 19, two caped figures approach Poe's resting place. One leaves the tribute and escapes into the night. The other dies there, felled by an...
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