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First Vintage crime/Black Lizard edition. |
| Description |
1 online file. |
| Series |
Aurelio Zen mystery ; [10] |
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Vintage crime/Black Lizard |
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Dibdin, Michael.
Aurelio Zen mystery ; 10.
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Vintage crime/Black Lizard.
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| Note |
"Aurelio Zen mystery." |
| Summary |
In the latest installment in his critically acclaimed Italian mystery series, Michael Didbin sends Aurelio Zen to Italy's culinary capital, Bologna, where he discovers that some cases are not quite what they appear to be. When the corpse of the shady Bologna industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Aurelio Zen is summoned to oversee the investigation. Anxious for a break from his girlfriend, who attributes Zen's slow recovery from routine surgery to hypochondria, he is only too happy to take on what first appears to be an undemanding assignment. The case quickly spins out of control, becoming entangled with the fates of a student semiotics, a mysterious immigrant claiming to be royalty, and Bologna's most incompetent private detective. Meanwhile a prominent postmodern academic accuses Italy's leading celebrity chef of being a fraud. Back to Bologna is dazzlingly plotted and delivers both comic and serious insights into the realities of today's Italy. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. New York : Knopf Publishing Group, 2006. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1348 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 208 KB). |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Zen, Aurelio (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Industrialists -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
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Police -- Italy -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Bologna (Italy) -- Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780307275882 (DLC) 2005056363 (OCoLC)62533951 |
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