Italian police inspector Michael Dibdin tries to temper his crime-fighting zeal when he is transferred to a licentious department in Naples, until he stumbles upon an operatic intrigue involving gangsters and prostitutes. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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<b>An Aurelio Zen Novel</b><br><br>Michael Dibdin's overburdened Italian police inspector has been transferred to Naples, where the rule of law is so lax that a police station may double as a brothel. But this time, having alienated superiors with his impolitic zealousness in every previous posting, Zen is determined not to make waves.<br><br>Too bad an American sailor (who may be neither American nor a sailor) knifes one of his opposite numbers in Naples's harbor, and some local garbage collectors have taken to moonlighting in homicide. And when Zen becomes embroiled in a romantic intrigue involving love-sick gangsters and prostitutes who pass themselves off as Albanian refugees, all Naples comes to resemble the set of the Mozart opera of the same title. Bawdy, suspenseful, and splendidly farcical, the result is an irresistible offering from a maestro of mystery.
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