Author: Michael Dibdin Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Detective Culture: Italy
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Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may be tomorrow's defendants.Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-demented contessa and a vanished American millionaire whose family is paying Zen under the table to determine his whereabouts-dead or alive. But he keeps stumbling over corpses that are distressingly concrete: from the crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's noisome "black wells" to a brand-new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. The result is a mystery rich in character and deduction, and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting.
This book is part of the "Aurelio Zen" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Medusa" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Back to Bologna" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "And Then You Die" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Blood Rain" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Long Finish" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Cosi Fan Tutti" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Cabal" First published in 1992 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Vendetta" First published in 1990 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Ratking" First published in 1988 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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