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Loading... A Mystery of Venice: Farewell to the Flesh (original 1991; edition 1993)by Edward Sklepowich
Work InformationFarewell to the Flesh by Edward Sklepowich (1991)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Set during Venice's carnival, we follow Urbino Macintyre in his second adventure in sleuthing. Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu" is kinda of the key of the mystery. Like the first novel, literature plays a big part in the plot and how the characters act and think. A young man is killed in an infamous back street of Venice during carnival and his murder starts a domino effect in the lives of the people caught in the middle. It's well written, the carnival is made part of the plot not just scenery. I should have paid more attention to Proust but then again sometimes it's fun to be surprised. I'm looking forward to the next novel ( ) no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesUrbino Macintyre (book 2)
During Carnival, Urbino Macintyre discovers a murder in a convent Each of the sisters of the Charity of Santa Crispina chooses a different way to die. Some relax into the arms of death, eager for their eternal rewards. Some leave this world violently, screaming in pain as they take their last breaths. The convent is a severe place, its rooms spartan, its food bland. But the time has come for Carnival in Venice, and a tourist will take any room he can find. Photographer Val Gibbon has come to document the renovation of a nearby church, but he has hardly begun his work before a knife finds its way into his chest, and the convent becomes a crime scene. American expatriate Urbino Macintyre, a biographer and amateur sleuth, sets aside his plans for Carnival to look into the murder. In this ancient city, nothing is ever as it seems--especially not in the season when the only creature not wearing a mask is death itself. No library descriptions found. |
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