Dead Lagoon |
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Author:
| Dibdin, Michael |
Series title: | Aurelio Zen Mystery Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-517-31676-4 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1998 |
Publisher: | Random House Value Publishing
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $5.99 |
Book Description:
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Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, inDead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may be tomorrow's defendants. Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-dementedcontessaand a vanished American millionaire whose family is...
More DescriptionAmong the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, inDead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may be tomorrow's defendants. Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-dementedcontessaand a vanished American millionaire whose family is paying Zen under the table to determine his whereabouts-dead or alive. But he keeps stumbling over corpses that are distressingly concrete: from the crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's noisome "black wells" to a brand-new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. The result is a mystery rich in character and deduction, and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting. From the Trade Paperback edition.