Comme à Rome
ISBN:
9782264023650 (2264023651)
Edition language: French
Category:
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Mystery,
Detective,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Cozy Mystery,
Murder Mystery
Series: Roderick Alleyn 1 (#26)
bookshelves: winter-20102011, published-1970, mystery-thriller, play-dramatisation Read on December 31, 2010 Trailing a vast drugs syndicate, Inspector Alleyn heads incognito to Rome. But he hasn't counted on murder. Stars Jeremy Clyde. It was April in Rome, and gathered together in the churc...
One of the few multiple death books, and uses a trope which crops up at least once in almost all of the longer detective series: the benevolence of the detective. An entertaining read, but not one which moves me intensely.
Trailing a vast drugs syndicate, Inspector Alleyn heads incognito to Rome. But he hasn't counted on murder. Stars Jeremy Clyde.