Death of an Englishman
Magdalen Nabb
ISBN: 9781616952990
Published: July, 2003
Pricing
Paperback $9.99
Description
Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Florentine Carabinieri wants to go south for Christmas to spend the holiday with his family in Sicily, but a retired Englishman living in Florence has been murdered. Who has shot Mr. Langley-Smythe in the back? The marshal must discover the identity of the criminal and the motive for the crime before he...
Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Florentine Carabinieri wants to go south for Christmas to spend the holiday with his family in Sicily, but a retired Englishman living in Florence has been murdered. Who has shot Mr. Langley-Smythe in the back? The marshal must discover the identity of the criminal and the motive for the crime before he can take the train home for the holidays.
Media
“A coupe de maitre, as we say in French... One of the tastiest books I have read for years.”
—Georges Simenon
“Magdalen Nabb is so good she's awesome. ”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“Neatly plotted and well written. It is a more than sparkling read. ”
—Times Literary Supplement
“This elegant series, which began in 1981 with Death of an Englishman . . . is set in Florence, a city that glows in the Tuscan sun. . . . [His] sense of estrangement accounts for Guarnaccia’s special perspective on strangers, those ‘innocents’ among the living and the dead.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“The richest mystery here, however, is Florence itself, whose intricate politics and class structure Nabb parses with precision and wit.”