Dead Lagoon - Hardcover

Michael Dibdin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002243628 ISBN 13: 9780002243629

Publisher: Pantheon, 1995

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0002243628
• ISBN 13: 9780002243629
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1