The Marshal and the Madwoman - Softcover

Nabb, Magdalen

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9780006176138: The Marshal and the Madwoman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006176135 ISBN 13: 9780006176138

Publisher: Fontana Press, 1989

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Why should anyone want to murder Clementina, the crazed old woman who tidied by night the narrow streets of Florence's San Frediano district? Starting without clues, the Marshal sets out in the city's August heat to reconstruct her past. By the author of "The Marshal Makes His Report".

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Praise for Magdalen Nabb

"Exquisite."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Every word should be savored."
--Washington Post Book World

"The best mystery news in ages is that Soho is restoring to the canon Magdalen Nabb and her tremendous creation, Marshal Guarnaccia of the Italian Police in Florence."
--Chicago Tribune

"Nabb continues to extend conventions of the police procedural to suit her own intriguing vision and purpose."
--Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author:

Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire and trained as a potter. In 1975, she left her old life behind and moved with her son to Florence, where she fell in love with the local setting. Her Marshal Guarnaccia series, which has been translated into ten languages, was inspired by a real local marshal she befriended in the tiny pottery town of Montelupo Fiorentino. Nabb wrote children's fiction and crime novels until her death in 2007.

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