Police Commissioner Aurielo Zen is unexpectedly thrust into the dark tangle of a kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families in this chilling portrait of Italy today.
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Police Commissioner Aurielo Zen is unexpectedly thrust into the dark tangle of a kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families in this chilling portrait of Italy today.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Bantam Edition, a reprint of the Faber & Faber edition. Still a very collectible copy of Dibdin's first novel! . First printing. 266 p. ; 24 cm.
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Like New in Like New jacket. Size: 9x6x1; A nice hardcover in a protective Mylar sleeve with a crisp dust jacket, a tight binding and an unmarked text. Signed 1st Edition From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours a tracking number and delivery confirmation.
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Very Good + Book. Signed by Author(s) A square solid tight carefully read copy. This copy has some light soil to the edges of the text block, light cover edge wear, some soil to the non-laminated paper covers. uncorrected proof THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY.
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Fine book in a near fine dust jacket. 266 pages. First American Edition. First in Dibdin's mystery series featuring Aurelio Zen, police commissioner in modern-day Rome. Winner of the Golden Dagger Award. Fine in very near fine dustjacket with only trace wear and rubbing at spine ends.
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F in F- jacket. Signed by Author. F/F-. 8vo. original black cloth backed boards (a trifle rubbed) in dustwrapper priced $15.95 net (a trifle rubbed & nicked); pp. [vi (last blank)], 266. A near fine copy. Flatsigned to title page by the author, 'Michael Dibdin'. Ex-libris Colin Steele, though not marked as such, with his photocopy from a bookseller's catalogue, loosely enclosed. The first novel in the Aurelio Zen Venice-based detective series.
I've been reading Donna Leon's mysteries centered around Commissario Guido Brunnetti, a detective in Venice, Italy. As a result, I came across an interview with Donna Leon from 2009 where she talked about reading Michael Dibdin's books about a detective in Italy too.
Michael Dibdin was a Brit who wrote about Aurelio Zen, an altogether different personality from Brunnetti. Dibdin's writing style is very different from Leon's as you'd expect. I enjoyed reading Ratking, the first in Dibdin's series about Zen and I bought several of the books at one time from Alibris -- all used books in excellent condition. Unfortunately, Dibdin died in Seattle some years ago, but I look forward to reading more about Detective Zen.
