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Classic Italian crime fiction by the Donna Leon of Florence, the
acclaimed Magdalen Nabb There was enough trouble around to keep the
police busy for months. All over Florence tourists were being
robbed, cars stolen, and somewhere in the city terrorists were
quietly at work. So the suicide of a Dutch jeweller looked like an
open and shut case. Certainly there were some slight discrepancies.
But the only witnesses were a blind man, and an old woman given to
vicious lying. Yet the Marshal felt uneasy - it was all so
conveniently simple...
Olivia, an American-born model, married Count Ugo Brunamonti, a
feckless, soon impoverished aristocrat. After his death, she
supported her children by starting a fashion house which has
prospered. When she is kidnapped, the crime is reported to Marshal
Guarnaccia by her daughter, who may have been the intended victim.
Kidnapping is almost a second business for the Sardinians nominally
engaged in raising sheep in the Tuscan hills. They inhabit a vast
wilderness where a victim can be hidden away forever, and where
those searching for her will be quickly spotted. The government's
official policy is not to permit the payment of ransom. But if the
money isn't paid, the kidnappers cannot let their victim go free.
It would set a bad example. In this case, Guarnaccia suspects
another problem. Can it be that Olivia's children are unwilling to
pay the ransom? Is this more than a random crime?
"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control,
length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the
Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.
Title: Covent Garden: a pleasant comedie in five acts, in prose and
verse], etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and
changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry
to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important
dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover
of the stage and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Nabbes, Thomas;
1638. 4 . C.131.d.17.(3.)
Title: Totenham Court: a pleasant Comedie in five acts, in verse
and prose]: acted in the yeare M.D.CXXXIII., etc.Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books
reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society,
ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many
classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection
has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Nabbes, Thomas; 1638. 4 . C.131.d.17.(5.)
Title: Hannibal and Scipio. An historicall Tragedy in five acts and
in verse].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY &
DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised
by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of
literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian
verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and
poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage
and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Nabbes, Thomas; 1637.
4 . C.131.d.17.(2.)
Title: Covent Garden: a pleasant comedie in five acts, in prose and
verse], etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and
changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry
to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important
dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover
of the stage and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Nabbes, Thomas;
1638. 4 . C.131.d.17.(3.)
Title: The Vnfortunate Mother: a tragedie. Never acted; but set
downe according to the intention of the Author.Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books
reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society,
ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many
classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection
has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Nabbes, Thomas; 1640. 4 . C.131.d.17.(6.)
Title: Totenham Court: a pleasant Comedie in five acts, in verse
and prose]: acted in the yeare M.D.CXXXIII., etc.Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books
reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society,
ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many
classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection
has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Nabbes, Thomas; 1638. 4 . C.131.d.17.(5.)
Title: Microcosmus; a morall maske in five acts, in prose and
verse], etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and
changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry
to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important
dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover
of the stage and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Nabbes, Thomas;
1637. 4 . 11774.c.2.
Title: The Bride, a comedie. Acted in the yeere 1638. at the
private house in Drury-Lane by their Majesties Servants.Publisher:
British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is
the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the
world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items
in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers,
sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books
reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society,
ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many
classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection
has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Nabbes, Thomas; 1640. 4 . C.131.d.17.(7.)
A chilling, gripping and perceptive novel based on the real-life
case of a Florentine serial killer, from the highly acclaimed
Magdalen Nabb Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florence carabinieri is
first puzzled and then irritated when he is dragged into a
last-ditch attempt to nail the Monster, a vicious serial killer who
has ritually slaughtered seven courting couples in the most brutal
of circumstances. But he is soon sucked into the horror and squalor
of a multi-layered case that has confounded the authorities for
over ten years. So when a case is made out against the wrong man -
a monster in his own right who beats his wife and sexually abuses
his daughter - who is going to admit it? Summoning the courage to
speak out, the Marshal rapidly realises that no one wants to
listen. It is more comfortable for everyone, even the wrongly
accused man, if the blood-soaked vineyards keep their secret of
what really happened on the Saturday nights of the new moon...
"Why can't I just be happy?" We've all asked ourselves this
question from time to time and we've all wondered why it's so hard.
Considering that you probably include yourself in the vast majority
of what I'll refer to as "us," you probably find yourself wondering
this from time to time as well. From my years of observation and
talking to people, I've figured out that being a happy person is a
pretty easy thing to accomplish if you can just set your sights on
the right targets and get your priorities straight. Regardless of
what misery you've suffered or are suffering, if you can just step
back and gain a little perspective, you'll see that you too can be
happy. You're much stronger than you think.
Introducing Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Florentine
carabinieri, a Sicilian stationed far from home. He wants to go
south for Christmas to spend the holiday with his family, but he is
laid up with the 'flu. At this awkward moment, the death of a
retired Englishman is reported. A most inconvenient time for a
murder case. Who has shot Mr Langley-Smythe in the back? And why
has Scotland Yard felt it appropriate to send two detectives, one
of whom speaks no Italian, to 'help' the marshal and his colleagues
with their investigation? Most importantly for the marshal, ever
the Italian, will he be able to solve the crime in time to join his
family over the holiday season? This first book in the ever popular
detective series is a wonderfully evocative piece of crime fiction
and quasi-travel writing, as the reader is immediately transported
into the heart of Florence, one of Italy's most beautiful cities.
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