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Synopsis
THE BRESCIANO MYSTERIES are set in the 18th and 19th century, in Gibraltar, Morocco and Spain. It will be a full-blown series featuring a Gibraltarian detective: a first in detective fiction! Giovanni Bresciano is half-Genoese and half-English and, while he is quick to detect foul play and unearth clues, he also goes down blind alleys and blunders en route to the solution - which he reaches, after a fashion!
The idea of a Gibraltarian detective was developed by Sam Benady and Mary Chiappe a couple of years ago, and they set their first book, The Murder in Whirligig Lane (published in June 2010 by Calpe Press) in 1813 during a yellow fever epidemic. Bresciano is 51, a widower. But, as they wrote the book, they found themselves growing as interested in the character as in the puzzle presented by a corpse that is not `yellow enough' to have died from the fever. As a result, they began to sketch out further plots for succeeding books.
So now comes Fall of a Sparrow. Though it is the second book to be written, it is actually about the first case Bresciano solved, when he was a callow eighteen-year old during the Great Seige in 1779.
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About the Author
Sam Benady's family settled in Gibraltar in 1735. He is a retired paediatrician and amateur historian and has worked in, among other places, Bristol, Jerusalem, and Gibraltar -where he ran the Child Health services almost single-handedly for over 20 years.
Mary Chiappe: teacher and journalist. Her forefathers came from Sicily and her foremothers from Andalusia - with gypsy blood somewhere along the way. A brief foray into politics made her Gibraltar's first woman minister at the age of 25. She resigned to do what she really enjoyed - teaching.
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