- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (7 Dec 1981)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002312980
- ISBN-13: 978-0002312981
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 14 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,847,857 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The first of Magdalen Nabb's acclaimed Marshal Guarnaccia mysteries, now reissued in Arrow. Nabb does for Florence what Donna Leon does for Venice, showing us the murky realities behind the stunning tourist exteriors.
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This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. This is an advanced level work of fiction.
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Forza Firenze
9 May 2002
Format:Paperback
The re-release of Magdalene Nabb's Florentine stories is long overdue ( and shame on her UK publisher for dropping her ).
Congratulations are due to SoHo Press for their continuing ressucitation of some of the finest crime writers ( Van Der Wetterring , Tokagi and Janes etc )who all seem to have been dropped in favour of half-witted serial killer clones.
These are some of the finest crime stories ever written and their evocation of Florence is flawless.Marshal Guarnaccia is one of the most engaging protagonists since Maigret and the stories have a similar emphasis on the observation of character and cause rather than Chritie-esque puzzles.In many ways the mystery seems secondary to Ms. Nabb's exceptional ability to draw the reader into the lives of her characters and the bustle of Florentine daily life.
Buy three copies, one to read and re-read to destruction , one to keep for the time when your first falls to bits and one to give to your best friend.
Brava Signora !
53 of 73 people found the following review helpful
For all the future reviwers- Pease do not spoil the mystery
13 April 2004
Format:Paperback
I was going to read this book which looked nicely recomended but thanks to the kindly meant but unfortunately revealing review of Maiko Shimoi from Osaka, Japan I will not be reading this book.
Any one else who is planning to read the book please do not read Maiko's review...
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Promising
8 May 2011
Format:Paperback
The first in the Marshal Guarnaccia series makes a promising start. Set in Florence, the marshal wants nothing more than to head home to Sicily for the Christmas holidays but is laid low with the flu. Desperately trying to recover in order that he may return to his family for the holidays, he is called out to a murder site... an Englishman had been shot in the back, the murder weapon is missing and there are no apparent clues.
It turns out the man is from a well-connected family in England, and Scotland Yard dispatches 2 of its own to Florence to work with the local police in solving this mystery.
With an interesting cast of characters and possible suspects, we are led a merry chase, but it's the marshal's quiet observations that solve the case.
It turns out the man is from a well-connected family in England, and Scotland Yard dispatches 2 of its own to Florence to work with the local police in solving this mystery.
With an interesting cast of characters and possible suspects, we are led a merry chase, but it's the marshal's quiet observations that solve the case.
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