Death at La Fenice : a Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery / Donna Leon.
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TextPublication details: New York : Perennial Dark Alley, 2004.Edition: 1st Dark Alley edDescription: 270 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 006074068X (pbk.) :
- 9780060740689 (pbk.)
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Main Library | Mystery | Leon, Donna | GB 1 | Available | 33111005439407 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A gripping first mystery, as beguiling and secretly sinister as Venice herself. Sparkling and irresistible." -- Rita Mae Brown
The first book in the internationally bestselling Guido Brunetti detective series in which a high society murder leads Guido to investigate the darker side of beautiful Venice.
There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti, the suave, urbane vice-commissario of police and a genius at detection. Now all of his admirable abilities must come into play in the deadly affair of Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor who died painfully from cyanide poisoning during an intermission at La Fenice.
But as the investigation unfolds, a chilling picture slowly begins to take shape--a detailed portrait of revenge painted with vivid strokes of hatred and shocking depravity. And the dilemma for Guido Brunetti will not be finding a murder suspect, but rather narrowing the choices down to one.
The hardcover edition of this book was published in 1992 by HarperCollins Publishers, and a paperback edition in 1995 by HarperTorch.