{"product_id":"dead-lagoon-michael-dibdin-9780679753117","title":"Dead Lagoon: An Aurelio Zen Mystery","description":"Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in \u003ci\u003eDead Lagoon\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003econtessa\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Dibdin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679753117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679753117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.15h x 5.19w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/21\/1996 pg. 32","brand":"Michael Dibdin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925576974591,"sku":"9780679753117","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7cd27b38-fbbf-4ac9-a018-cd5422732a8d.jpg?v=1681078094","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dead-lagoon-michael-dibdin-9780679753117","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}