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When Flavia Brollo, the intelligent model who claimed to be the daughter of the Conte da Capo-Zendrini, is found dead in a canal, Urbino must act fast to find her killer and clear the Conte's name. 15,000 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo.
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Edward Sklepowich is an American author of mysteries. A Fulbright scholarship took him to Europe and Africa, and he has made his home across the Mediterranean, living in Venice, Naples, Egypt, and Tunisia. Deeply connected to his Italian heritage, Sklepowich has used the country as the setting for all of his fiction.
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While Sklepowich's latest crime novel set in Venice teems with intrigue and atmosphere, it is lamentably lacking such crime fiction staples as plot and suspense. As in Death in a Serene City and Farewell to the Flesh , murder visits the rarefied social strata inhabited by American expatriate writer Urbino Macintyre and his close friend, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini. Dark events conspire to interrupt the flow of their sophisticated pontifications: a young woman is raped and murdered, another slashes a valuable portrait and demands an audience with the Contessa. When the enigmatic Flavia Brollo appears, claiming to be the illegitimate daughter of the Contessa's late, adored husband, Urbino begins to investigate the life of this clearly unhappy girl. He finds a misshapen family tree and some hints of possible drug use just before Flavia's body is pulled from a canal--with three quarters of the book still remaining. By this time, though, many readers' patience will be nearly exhausted and unlikely to be restored by the surfeit of artistic aunts, uncles, fathers and other aesthetes the author throws their way. Light relief does come in the form of Urbino's blustering ex-brother-in-law, intent both on buying art and on bringing Macintyre and his former wife back together. Although sometimes charming, this deliberately mannered book is overlong and underplotted.
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0688111653
- ISBN 13 9780688111656
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages315
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