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Death of an Englishman
Magdalen Nabb
#UE7822
Paperback, 172 pages; 2001 (1981)
$12.00
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Carabiniere Bacci did not like the Marshal. In the first place because he was Sicilian and he suspected him of being, if not actually Mafia, at least mafioso, and he knew that the Marshal knew of his suspicion and even encouraged it. He seemed to think it was funny.
This first carefully crafted book in Magdalen Nabb's Florentine mystery series introduces the quietly kind and keenly perceptive Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia. When the story begins, the Sicilian marshal stationed in Florence is eager to get back to his family for the upcoming Christmas holiday, but an inconvenient case of the flu, and an even more inconvenient case of murder, force him to stay put. Death of an Englishman features compelling characters (both suspects and detectives) in a richly evoked Italian setting.
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