The Marshal Makes His Report

Nabb, Magdalen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006496954 ISBN 13: 9780006496953

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1996

Homicide, suicide or accident? When a member of one of the oldest noble families in Florence suffers a sudden death, the only acceptable choice is accident. But Marshal Guarnaccia doesn't believe it was an accident, although he'll be risking his career if he says so.

From the Back Cover:

Homicide, Suicide or Accident? When a member of one of the oldest noble families in Florence suffers a sudden death, the only acceptable choice is Accident. But Marshal Guarnaccia of the carabinieri doesn't believe what happened at the Palazzo Ulderighi was an accident, although he'll risking his career if he says so. The trouble is that the Marshal has a way of making his presence felt, and it isn't long before the accident is acknowledged as suicide. Still the Marshal isn't satisfied, and while he claims he isn't accusing the Marchesa of killing her husband, exactly what 'does' he believe?

Threatened, afraid and baffled, the Marshal paces the courtyard inside the palazzo, always accompanied by the music of flute or piano and haunted by the conviction that something sinister has happened there. When at last the music stops the Marshal is proved right, and after nine hundred years of survival by bloodshed the Palazzo Ulderighi yields up its latest victim.

"Magdalen Nabb is magnificent on the medieval pageantry and sinister facades of her adopted Florence"
JOHN COLEMAN, 'Sunday Times'

"Magdalen Nabb's books are set in a Florence so vividly brought to life that I long to go back there after reading each one"
SUSANNA YAGER, 'Sunday Telegraph'