The Veils of Venice

Product Description: This book presents the new Urbino Macintyre Venetian mystery. Long-time Venice resident, literary biographer - and reluctant amateur sleuth - Urbino Macintyre is helping his friend, the Contessa Barbara, to organize an exhibition of the famous textile designer Mariano Fortuny. The Contessa's cousin, Olimpia, is stabbed to death in a crime of passion. In a family where hatred, fear and deceit are present, all clues twist back to the Contessa's relatives and the tumbledown palazzo they shared with the murdered dressmaker. But it is a delicate matter; especially when it is Barbara's loyal maid, Mina, who is found kneeling beside the body clutching a pair of bloodied scissors...
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