Fülszöveg
'Operatically extravagant, ceaselessly entertaining'
Guardian
Inspector Achille Peroni, 'the Rudolf Valentino of the Italian police', is an Anglophile Neapolitan - and what better combination could there be to suit a man to the
high-life and low-Ufe of Italian crime? Seconded to Venice, however, Peroni is soon bored by petty crime -until a murder galvanises him to enthusiastic activity.
A FUNERAL OF GONDOLAS
Amongst the criminal freemasonry of the gondoliers,
and the crumbling palaces of the impoverished aristocracy, Peroni finds a web of intrigue which appears to be linked with the eighteenth-century Venetian playwright, Goldoni. But is it fact or fantasy? And where, among the canals and lagoons, will the murderer
strike again?
'Splendidly phosphorescent entertainr"' .iit'
Observer '
'Marvellously evocative' ^ '
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S ? mday Te legraph
'Mystery, romance, good jokes and fine writing, joined to a deep and knowledgeable love of al things Italian, make it a dream of a...
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Fülszöveg
'Operatically extravagant, ceaselessly entertaining'
Guardian
Inspector Achille Peroni, 'the Rudolf Valentino of the Italian police', is an Anglophile Neapolitan - and what better combination could there be to suit a man to the
high-life and low-Ufe of Italian crime? Seconded to Venice, however, Peroni is soon bored by petty crime -until a murder galvanises him to enthusiastic activity.
A FUNERAL OF GONDOLAS
Amongst the criminal freemasonry of the gondoliers,
and the crumbling palaces of the impoverished aristocracy, Peroni finds a web of intrigue which appears to be linked with the eighteenth-century Venetian playwright, Goldoni. But is it fact or fantasy? And where, among the canals and lagoons, will the murderer
strike again?
'Splendidly phosphorescent entertainr"' .iit'
Observer '
'Marvellously evocative' ^ '
/
S ? mday Te legraph
'Mystery, romance, good jokes and fine writing, joined to a deep and knowledgeable love of al things Italian, make it a dream of a book.'
Scotsman
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