Betrayal - Softcover

Giorgio Scerbanenco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957480601 ISBN 13: 9780957480605

Publisher: Hersilia Press, 2013

Synopsis

A lawyer who has spent time in prison with Duca is found drowned in one of the Navigli, the Milanese canals. Duca is contacted by a friend of the dead lawyer to perform surgery on a woman who after the operation confesses that although she is due to marry a wealthy butcher, is really in love with another man, the friend of the lawyer. Shortly afterwards, she is killed together with her lover. Duca discovers that the two events are linked and starts to unravel an arms and drugs trafficking business, centred in an understated trattoria, of which the two were part.

About this title

About the Author

Giorgio Scerbanenco was born in the Ukraine in 1911 but emigrated to Italy at a young age. Although he wrote in several genres he is considered by many to be the father of Italian noir and has been called the Italian Simenon. He worked as a journalist and as a contributor to women's magazines before turning to crime fiction. The most prestigious Italian literary prize for crime fiction is named after him. His literary production was vast, and many of his novels have been dramatized for cinema and television in Italian, Spanish and French. About the translator: Howard Curtis has translated more than fifty books from French, Italian and Spanish. His translations have won the John Florio Prize and the Europa Campiello Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hersilia Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0957480601
• ISBN 13: 9780957480605
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260