Description
Product ID: | 9781782271048 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Disappearance of Signora Giulia |
Authors: | Author: Piero Chiara |
Page Count: | 128 |
Subjects: | Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic crime, Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A delightfully told Italian mystery, with undercurrent of satire to keep the reader guessing. When the sad, beautiful Signora Giulia goes missing without a trace from her Lake Como villa home, it is her husband who reports her disappearance to the detective Sciancalepre, and so the search begins - one that takes Sciancalepre beneath the tranquil surface of local bourgeois society, a world of snobbery and secrets, while mysterious shadows lurk in the grounds of the family villa . . . As his investigation gathers pace this atmospheric classic detective story becomes a thrilling game of legal cat and mouse. |
Imprint Name: | Pushkin Vertigo |
Publisher Name: | Pushkin Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-09-17 |