Dressed for Death: A Guido Brunetti Mystery - Softcover

Leon, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061094188 ISBN 13: 9780061094187

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1995

Synopsis

The identity of a transvestite prostitute's corpse erupts into a scandal and piques the suspicions of police commissario Guido Brunetti, who uncovers a connection among the victim, the city's most renowned institutions, and the underworld. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Donna Leon teaches English at the University of Maryland Extension at a U.S. Air Force base near Venice, Italy.

From Kirkus Reviews:

You're dressed for death when you're wearing a red dress, red pumps, and red lingerie--especially if you're Leonardo Mascari, director of the Venice branch of the Bank of Verona, fatally beaten in the Venetian suburb of Mestre. The evidence suggests that Mascari is a member of Venice's sad community of transvestite prostitutes, but Commissario Guido Brunetti (Death in a Strange Country, 1993, etc.) doesn't believe the evidence. After discovering Giancarlo Santomauro of the Lega della Moralit... in the apartment of a male prostitute who recognizes Mascari's picture but says he doesn't, Brunetti realizes he's up against something considerably more sordid than a sex killing. He's soon on the track of a simple and nasty scheme involving tax fraud and a protection racket on a heroic scale. But knowing isn't proving, and as the crooks begin eliminating each other, Brunetti, already battling political pressures in his office, wonders if he'll ever be able to make a convincing case against any of the honorable men who are left standing when the blood has cleared. One of the most appealing of recent detectives, Brunetti stars in a case that brings out his canniness and his compassion--and shows his creator spreading her wings more powerfully than ever. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0061094188
• ISBN 13: 9780061094187
• Binding: Paperback