- Crime & mystery, Fiction - Mystery/ Detective, Mystery/Suspense, Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
"On orders emanating from high above the usual police bureaucracy, Venetian police inspector Aurelio Zen is sent to Sardinia to arrest someone - anyone - for the murder of an eccentric billionaire whose corrupt dealings enriched some of the most exalted figures in the Italian government."-- Publisher description.
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Classical in form, cool, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Michael Dibdin, Michael Dibdin
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 281
- Publisher
- Faber, Faber and Faber, Faber & Faber
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- Italian, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780571143320
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- Crime & mystery
- Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
- Mystery/Suspense
- Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
- Mystery & Detective - Series
- Zen, aurelio (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- Italy, fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Suspense fiction
- Aurelio Zen (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
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