The Marshal at the Villa Torrini/a Marshal Guarnaccia Mystery - Hardcover

Nabb, Magdalen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006016915X ISBN 13: 9780060169152

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1994

Synopsis

Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florence Police is summoned to the Villa Torrini, where he finds the body of a well-known writer, and despite no signs of violence, definite suspicions of murder

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Review:

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

From the Back Cover:

Up at the Villa Torrini, a well-known writer lies dead without a mark on her body. Down in the city of Florence, Marshall Guarnaccia struggles in vain with a tough new legal system and the hunger pangs of a strict diet.

The case calls for clear thinking, but the Marshal is befuddled by lack of food and humiliated by the sarcasm of the most notorious prosecutor in town. out of his depth with the literati, but hounding his suspect nonetheless, help comes from a repressed forty-year-old memory of a ragged child in the schoolroom: Vittorio, son of the village prostitute, whose long-ago sufferings finally provide the Marshal with a solution to the sinister mystery at the heart of the Villa Torrini.

'The Marshal is an enduring creation in a lovingly realised setting'
OBSERVER

'Magdalen Nabb's books are set in a Florence so vividly realised that I long to go back there after reading each one'
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 006016915X
• ISBN 13: 9780060169152
• Binding: Hardcover