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By alternating between the first person perspectives of these side - and at times strictly peripheral - characters, and the third person narration of her protagonist's story, the author allows the narrative structure to mimic the investigative journalism experience.īy reading the intimate accounts of each first person narrator alongside Maddie's narrative, the reader becomes an active participant in Maddie's search for answers, scouring each first person section for clues to both Tessie Fine and Cleo Sherwood's. The first person narrators include, but are not limited to, Cleo Sherwood, Wallace Wright, Tessie Fine, Bob Bauer, Stephen Corwin, Violet Wilson Whyte, Edna Sperry, John Diller, Madame Claire, Lionel Sherwood, and Tommy Ludlow. Not only did the crime writer grow up in the city, but she also spent 12 years reporting for the Baltimore Sun. She is a missing person that no one is actually looking for, a young African-American woman who left her two young sons, fathered by two different men, with her parents to raise while she worked in the notorious Flamingo Club, tending bar and performing other duties better left unmentioned. The third person narrator follows Maddie Schwartz's experience and perspective most closely. L aura Lippman knows her way around Baltimore. But a new case will force her to confront.

The body of one of the missing women was found in the fountain in the lake at Druid Hill Park the lake in the book’s title. Since Laura Lippman’s debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the essential crime writers of the last 100 years. First as a reporter and then as a PI Tess Monaghan has learned how to survive and thrive on the streets of Baltimore. Lippman writes the novel from a network of first person points of view, interspersed with sections of third person point of view. Her book was inspired by the unrelated disappearances of two women, one black and one white, in 1960s Baltimore.