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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100380788764

ISBN-139780380788767

eBay Product ID (ePID)740733

Product Key Features

Book TitleCharm City

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective / Historical, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators

Publication Year1997

GenreFiction

AuthorLaura Lippman

Book SeriesTess Monaghan Novel Ser.

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight5.1 Oz

Item Length6.8 in

Item Width4.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-819468

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Both entertaining and unexpectedly touching. More Please." -- Baltimore Sun Mystery fans can anticipate an engrosising series. -- Publishers Weekly

Series Volume Number2

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

SynopsisAs a practiced reporter until her newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky, P.I. Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore, even the parts being slobbered on by the sad-sack greyhound she's minding for her uncle. It's a quirky city where baseball reigns, but lately homicide seems to be the second most popular local sport. Business tycoon "Wink" Wynkowski is trying to change all that by bringing pro basketball back to town, and everybody's rooting fro him -- until a devastating, muckraking expose of his lurid past appears on the front page of the Baltimore Beacon-Light. It's a surprise even to the Blight's editors, who thought they'd killed the piece. Instead, the piece killed Wink -- who's found in his garage with the car running. Now the Blight wants to nail the unknown computer hacker who planted the lethal story, and the assignment is right up the alley of a former newshound like Tess. But it doesn't take long for her to discover deeper, darker secrets, and to realize that this situation is really more about whacking than hacking. It's just murder in Baltimore these days -- and Tess Monaghan herself might be next on the list. As a practiced reporter until her newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky, P.I. Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore, even the parts being slobbered on by the sad-sack greyhound she's minding for her uncle. It's a quirky city where baseball reigns, but lately homicide seems to be the second most popular local sport. Business tycoon "Wink" Wynkowski is trying to change all that by bringing pro basketball back to town, and everybody's rooting for him -- until a devastating, muckraking expose of his lurid past appears on the front page of the Baltimore Beacon-Light. It's a surprise even to the Blight's editors, who thought they'd killed the piece. Instead, the piece killed Wink -- who's found in his garage with the car running. Now the Blight wants to nail the unknown computer hacker who planted the lethal story, and the assignment is right up the alley of a former newshound like Tess. But it doesn't take long for her to discover deeper, darker secrets, and to realize that this situation is really more about whacking than hacking. It's just murder in Baltimore these days -- and Tess Monaghan herself might be next on the list.

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