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Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to investigate the murder of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team and who has been found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife. But soon a world-famous university professor is shot with the same gun, mmediatly after publicity humiliating...
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Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to investigate the murder of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team and who has been found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife. But soon a world-famous university professor is shot with the same gun, mmediatly after publicity humiliating Italy's leading celebrity television chef, and the case spins out control while Zen wonders if he can rise to the challenge.
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Format: papier
ISBN:
0571227775
Publish date: 2005 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 263
Edition language: English
Series: Aurelio Zen (#10)
Enormously funny, as the ever cynical Dibdin pokes fun at post-post modernism, overblown celebrity of several kinds, and the corrupt culture of celebrity in these various fields, while using with great humour the time honored and very convoluted device of mistaken identity, with nods to Shakespeare ...
Just lately I picked up a couple of crime fiction books, having given the genre a wide berth for a long time. I had an idea absence would have made the heart grow fonder, but it hasn't.I can say this is far superior to the Donna Leon I read first, but that is merely to damn Dibdin with faint praise.
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