Entombed : a novel
Fairstein, Linda A.
Entombed : a novel / Linda Fairstein - New York : Scribner , c2005. - 400 p. ; 25 cm.
From New York Times bestselling author and famed former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein comes a chilling new Alexandra Cooper novel, Entombed, in which Alex matches wits with the master of detective fiction himself-Edgar Allan Poe...Workers demolishing a nineteenth-century brownstone where Edgar Allan Poe once lived discover a human skeleton entombed -- standing -- behind a brick wall. When sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper hears about the case, it strikes her as a classic Poe scene...except that forensic evidence shows that this young woman died within the last twenty-five years. Meanwhile, Alex's old nemesis the Silk Stocking Rapist is once again terrorizing Manhattan's Upper East Side. The attacks soon escalate to murder, and the search leads Alex and detectives Mercer Wallace and Mike Chapman to the city's stunning Bronx Botanical Gardens. There, an enigmatic librarian presides over the Raven Society, a group devoted to the work of Poe. In exploring the fabled writer's tormented life for clues, Alex will cross paths with a cunning killer and face some of the greatest challenges of her career.
9780743254885
2004052189
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) ----Fiction
Cooper, Alexandra (Fictitious character)----Fiction
Serial rape investigations----Fiction
Public prosecutors----Fiction
Women lawyers----Fiction
Upper East Side (New York, NY)----Fiction
Tme travel---Fiction
Mystery fiction
Legal stories
PS3556.A3654 / E57 2005
MYS FAI
Entombed : a novel / Linda Fairstein - New York : Scribner , c2005. - 400 p. ; 25 cm.
From New York Times bestselling author and famed former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein comes a chilling new Alexandra Cooper novel, Entombed, in which Alex matches wits with the master of detective fiction himself-Edgar Allan Poe...Workers demolishing a nineteenth-century brownstone where Edgar Allan Poe once lived discover a human skeleton entombed -- standing -- behind a brick wall. When sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper hears about the case, it strikes her as a classic Poe scene...except that forensic evidence shows that this young woman died within the last twenty-five years. Meanwhile, Alex's old nemesis the Silk Stocking Rapist is once again terrorizing Manhattan's Upper East Side. The attacks soon escalate to murder, and the search leads Alex and detectives Mercer Wallace and Mike Chapman to the city's stunning Bronx Botanical Gardens. There, an enigmatic librarian presides over the Raven Society, a group devoted to the work of Poe. In exploring the fabled writer's tormented life for clues, Alex will cross paths with a cunning killer and face some of the greatest challenges of her career.
9780743254885
2004052189
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) ----Fiction
Cooper, Alexandra (Fictitious character)----Fiction
Serial rape investigations----Fiction
Public prosecutors----Fiction
Women lawyers----Fiction
Upper East Side (New York, NY)----Fiction
Tme travel---Fiction
Mystery fiction
Legal stories
PS3556.A3654 / E57 2005
MYS FAI
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