Title: The Words That Kill - Martha GRIMES - book
Summary :
Every year, cognac and roses are placed on Edgar Allan Poe's grave for his birthday. In Baltimore, no one questions where this offering comes from anymore. Until the day the strange ritual takes a macabre turn: Beverly Brown, a literature student, is strangled in the cemetery. Melrose Plant, the most cultured of detectives, is immediately called to the rescue. This is an opportunity to introduce his friend Richard Jury, a brilliant member of Scotland Yard, to American pubs.
The two accomplices will investigate with undisguised pleasure a mysterious Poe manuscript discovered by Beverly. Because, when Plant and Jury go on vacation, it's to indulge their passions without restraint: criminal investigations and literature...
