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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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Una raccolta di racconti brevi che hanno per protagonisti gli
abitanti dell'immaginario paesino toscano di Capacciano. Ogni
storia si articola intorno ad un incontro,apparentemente casuale,
da cui prende inizio una vicenda che conduce sia i personaggi, sia
il lettore verso una direzione insospettata. I temi principali
rimangono l'amicizia, l'amore e la comprensione, con un salutare
pizzico di divertita ironia.
Among the protagonists of these stories there are the minor
characters that were present in the former books of the series
dedicated to the Irish amateur detectives who settled in Tuscany.
The main characters, just for once, don't appear at all. But the
protagonist is the fictional village of Capacciano, by the Arno
River, not far from Arezzo together with its inhabitants. The
common theme of the stories is the casual encounter, which may
change people's perspective and lives.
An American soap opera company arrived in Arezzo to film some
instalments of their serial. The actors who play the leading roles
in the soap are very popular in Italy and they asked for a calm and
relaxing location during their stay. The beautiful farm of Peter
and William, which hosts a comfortable B&B and a restaurant,
would be the ideal place for the American actors, the producer, the
director and the screenwriter. But a malicious fate has something
different in store for them. A cruel killer starts targeting the
actors of the soap, without any apparent motive. The local police
are stumbling around in the dark with no clue. But the murderer
hasn't dealt with William's uncommon foresight. Or maybe it's
William who neglects the killer's ingenuity....
A collection of short stories, which have, as common denominator,
the feature of being all about Russians and based on real facts.
Actually there is very little fiction. In most of cases I wrote a
literal description of true stories. In few occasions I adapted
slightly a description or I shortened an event, for narrative needs
only. The stories are presented in casual temporary order, like a
voluntary backwards and forwards excursion in scattered memories.
Iris Ciancaleoni Alunni committed suicide while she was on a cruise
with her husband Sabatino. Two years later, the devastated widower
seems to recover from his deep grief and meets a lady with whom he
hopes to find comfort and affection for starting a new life. But
one of Iris' friends is not persuaded that everything was really
cleared up even though the police have no new elements to justify
the reopening of the case. She turns to William Collins and his
friends, whose reputation of talented amateur detectives is well
known among the inhabitants of Capacciano, a Tuscan village perched
on the hill surrounding Arezzo. Will they help her to find the
truth about Iris' death? "Goodbyes, They Often Come In Waves" is
the third instalment in the William Collins & Peter Boyle's
series - another entertaining crime thriller.
The same three Irish characters who were the protagonists of "The
perilous Art of Forgetting", William Collins, Peter Boyle and
Reginald McKenzie are back. A few years have passed since then, and
they have left Ireland to start a new page of their life in
charming Tuscany. Once again they get involved, against their will
and expectation, in dramatic happenings and mysterious murders and
have to summon up their speculative intellectual talents to unravel
the evidences and the plots. What's happened to the beautiful, rich
and spoilt Fiammetta Innocenti only a few days before her wedding?
Was she really killed by Giorgio Cini, the photographer?
Everybody knew that nothing unexpected or dangerous ever happened
at St. Osmanna's College. Then one day Sister Bernadette fell down
the main stairway and...Four friends, who apparently could not be
more different from each other, are trying to solve the mysteries
which are troubling the quiet and peaceful life of a small Irish
village and its inhabitants.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
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++++ Precieux Et Precieuses Charles-Louis Livet Didier, 1859
Literary Criticism; European; French; Literary Criticism / European
/ French
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