| Cosi Fan Tutti: An Aurelio Zen Mystery Contributor(s): Dibdin, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679779116 ISBN-13: 9780679779117 Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: An Aurelio Zen Novel Michael Dibdin's overburdened Italian police inspector has been transferred to Naples, where the rule of law is so lax that a police station may double as a brothel. But this time, having alienated superiors with his impolitic zealousness in every previous posting, Zen is determined not to make waves. Too bad an American sailor (who may be neither American nor a sailor) knifes one of his opposite numbers in Naples's harbor, and some local garbage collectors have taken to moonlighting in homicide. And when Zen becomes embroiled in a romantic intrigue involving love-sick gangsters and prostitutes who pass themselves off as Albanian refugees, all Naples comes to resemble the set of the Mozart opera of the same title. Bawdy, suspenseful, and splendidly farcical, the result is an irresistible offering from a maestro of mystery. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Thrillers - Crime |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96045387 |
| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.16" W x 8.02" (0.46 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Central Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An Aurelio Zen Novel Michael Dibdin's overburdened Italian police inspector has been transferred to Naples, where the rule of law is so lax that a police station may double as a brothel. But this time, having alienated superiors with his impolitic zealousness in every previous posting, Zen is determined not to make waves. Too bad an American sailor (who may be neither American nor a sailor) knifes one of his opposite numbers in Naples's harbor, and some local garbage collectors have taken to moonlighting in homicide. And when Zen becomes embroiled in a romantic intrigue involving love-sick gangsters and prostitutes who pass themselves off as Albanian refugees, all Naples comes to resemble the set of the Mozart opera of the same title. Bawdy, suspenseful, and splendidly farcical, the result is an irresistible offering from a maestro of mystery. |