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Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead 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-demented contessa and 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.
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Dead Lagoon, Michael Dibdin
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1996
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Dead Lagoon
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Michael Dibdin
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1996
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0679753117
- ISBN13
- 9780679753117
- Reihe
- Commissario Zen
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Krimi, Thriller, Familie, Politik, Klassische Krimis, Serie, Italien, Südeuropa, Detektive, Italienische Literatur, Vergangenheit, Venedig
- Bewertung
- 3,85 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead 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-demented contessa and 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.