. . "Tombs." . . "Women Private Investigators - Maryland - Baltimore - Fiction." . . "Women private investigators Maryland Baltimore Fiction." . "Maryland" . . "Mystery & Detective." . . "FICTION Mystery & Detective General." . . "OverDrive, Inc." . . "Monaghan, Tess (Fictitious character)" . . "Fiction." . . "FICTION." . "Baltimore (Md.)" . . "Monaghan, Tess (Fictitious character) - Fiction." . . "Monaghan, Tess (Fictitious character) Fiction." . "Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 - Tomb - Fiction." . . "Women private investigators Baltimore Fiction." . . "Detective and mystery stories" . "Detective and mystery stories"@en . . . . . "Tess Monaghan krijgt het verzoek van een potentiële klant om een jaarlijks terugkerend ritueel te bekijken; een onbekende bezoekt dan het graf van de schrijver Poe." . . "It's a Charm City tradition that on Edgar Allan Poe's birthday, an unknown figure wrapped in a dark cloak visits the author's gravesite and leaves behind 3 roses and half a bottle of cognac. When a man asks Tess Monaghan's help in determining the identity of the mysterious visitor, Tess decides to watch from a respectful distance, but she is unprepared for the events she witnesses." . . . . . . . . "It is a Charm City tradition-- an annual visit to the Baltimore gravesite of Edgar Allan Poe on the renowned author's birthday by a mysterious cloaked figure bearing gifts of three roses and a half bottle of cognac. This year Tess Monaghan witnesses the cherished rite and sees two caped visitors. One leaves his tribute and escapes, the other dies there, felled by an assassin's bullet. Someone wants Tess involved in the murder investigation and leaves roses and cognac and cryptic clues on her doorstep."@en . "In einer seltsamen Stadt Roman" . . . "Mystery fiction"@en . "Mystery fiction" . "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 assassin's bullet.Tess sees nothing that the other witnesses didn't see. She isn't working for anyone at the moment?and the homicide detective who caught this particular \"red ball\" is an old and dangerous nemesis?so it might be worth her while to avoid this case like the plague. But someone else wants Tess involved in the worst way. A stranger is surreptitiously leaving her roses and cognac and bizarre, cryptic clues?someone who knows Tess's habits, someone who knows who she knows and where she lives. And suddenly home is a safe haven no longer.Like it or not, Tess Monaghan is now a prime player in the murderous drama. And as the body count rises even higher, she uncovers links in a chain of greed, lies, false histories, and deadly acquisitiveness, a dangerously twisted mystery worthy of Poe himself."@en . . . "Meet Tess Monaghan - ex-Baltimore Star reporter and accidental PI - as she investigates cases of murder, corruption and injustice in Charm City . . . Three red roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac have been left on the grave of Edgar Allan Poe every 19th of January for the past fifty years. Baltimore P. I. Tess Monaghan takes on the strangest case of her career when a man approaches her asking her to find out who is behind the ritual. On 19th January, as she watches Poe's grave, two cloaked figures appear, there is a gunshot, and one is killed. Who was the mysterious client who has given her a fake name, and how does an old friend from Tess's past fit into the case? Only Tess can get to the truth, but as things get more complicated can she solve it in time?"@en . . . . . "Detective and mystery stories, American"@en . . . . . . . "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..."@en . . . "Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan becomes dangerously involved in the investigation of the murder of the Visitor, a Baltimore ritual in which an unknown person leaves roses and a half bottle of cognac on Edgar Allan Poe's grave every January 19th." . . . . . . . . "Lippman's second Tess Monaghan novel is an homage to the city of Baltimore. The plot hinges on literary history involving an anonymous figure who places brandy and a rose on Edgar Allan Poe's grave every January on the writer's birthday--until one year the mystery man is murdered." . . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . "In a strange city : a Tess Monaghan mystery" . . . . . "Every January 19th, in honor of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday, a loyal clique waits in the small hours for the \"Visitor,\" also known as the \"Poe Toaster,\" to approach Poe's tomb. He wears a formal cape and carries three blood-red roses and a bottle of cognac as tribute. For some reason the press keep their distance, as do bystanders. This year, for the first time, PI Tess Monaghan is present, too, along with her boyfriend, Crow. Having been roped into attendance by a would-be client, Tess awaits the coming of the Visitor in the freezing winter night. Suddenly, two caped men with roses and cognac show up. A shot rings out and one man lies dead, the other runs off." . "In einer seltsamen Stadt : Roman" . . . "A bizarre graveyard celebration in honor of Edgar Allen Poe finds private investigator Tess Monaghan investigating a murder as strange and terrifying as the author's own fiction." . . . . . . . . . . "In a strange city Tess Monaghan Series, Book 6"@en . . . . . . "Nachtelijk ritueel" . "In A Strange City" . . . . "Electronic books"@en . "In a strange city" . . . . "In a strange city"@en . "Electronic books" . "In a strange city : a Tess Monaghan novel"@en . . . . . "In a Strange City"@en . "Suspense." . . "Women private investigators." . .