The Girl in the Green Raincoat: A Tess Monaghan Novel Even a brief glance at the back of the book will tell you that this novella ( William Morrow, 158p, Isbn-006193836X ) starts out as a modern-day retelling of the classic Hitchcock film, “ Rear Window “. Instead of a broken-footed James Stewart peeking into the varied lives of neighbors from the vantage point of his window, here we have a highly pregnant Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan whose doctor-ordered bed rest leads her to watch with interest the goings-on in a nearby park where her eye is caught first by a dog and then its owner, a woman dressed in a green raincoat. A few days later, the bored detective’s curiosity is further piqued when she spots the dog running through the park, quite owner-less. With the help of her friend and sometimes assistant, Whitney (a role played glamorously by Grace Kelly in the movie) and others, Tess launches an avid bedside investigation into the disappearance of the dog’s owner whom, apparently, no on