Dead Lagoon: An Aurelio Zen Mystery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679753117)

Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may be tomorrow's defendants.Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-demented contessa and a vanished American millionaire whose family is paying Zen under the table to determine his whereabouts-dead or alive. But he keeps stumbling over corpses that are distressingly concrete: from the crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's noisome "black wells" to a brand-new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. The result is a mystery rich in character and deduction, and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting.

Author: Michael Dibdin
ISBN-10: 0679753117
ISBN-13: 9780679753117
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Language: English
Published: 01/03/1996
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.15h x 5.19w x 0.73d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/21/1996 pg. 32