The Salati Case

Author : Tobias Jones
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057125442X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salati Case written by Tobias Jones and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Castagnetti (informally known as 'Casta') is a private detective who doesn't do things by the book. He's dogged and lonely, impatient with the world of appearances and deceit. So when a pompous notary commissions him to verify that a missing person is "presumed dead" in order to dispose of a dead woman's estate to the other heirs, Casta smells a rat. Before long he's reopening wounds from years ago and exposing family secrets to those who have tried to suppress them. The relatives of Signora Salati just want their their inheritance, but Casta is going to make sure they get their just desserts as well. Because Casta isn't the sort to content himself with "presumed dead". He likes certainty, the kind of certainty that comes from seeing a skeleton. As the Salati case progresses, other corpses appear and Casta realises he's at the centre of an old-fashioned Italian whodunit. The Salti Case marks the appearance of a new and memorable detective: an orphan who has pulled himself up from the mean streets.

Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0241263743
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Rome written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most readable introduction available to the sights and attractions of one of the greatest cities on earth. Everything you need to know about Rome's iconic landmarks, ancient buildings, and distinctive neighborhoods - as well as the inside track on the best of the city's restaurants, wine bars, shops, markets, and much more - is presented in a full-color, user-friendly format with dozens of beautiful photos and color-coded maps. Step foot inside the Colosseum, explore the Piazza Navona, visit the miraculous Sistine Chapel, and stroll through the streets with a gelato in hand. With expert history and background on the art and architecture, and features on the best places for Roman pizza, the city's best hotel bars, and cutting-edge cuisine, The Rough Guide to Rome has everything you need to make the most of your stay. There's no better single-volume guide to Rome. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Rome. Series Overview: For more than thirty years, adventurous travelers have turned to Rough Guides for up-to-date and intuitive information from expert authors. With opinionated and lively writing, honest reviews, and a strong cultural background, Rough Guides travel books bring more than 200 destinations to life. Visit RoughGuides.com to learn more.

Author : Stewart King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110848459X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction written by Stewart King and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic account of crime fiction as a global genre, offering unprecedented coverage of distinct traditions across the world.

Author : Brian Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134521871
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Literature and Translation written by Brian Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the relationship between literature and translation from three perspectives: the creative dimensions of the translation process; the way texts circulate between languages; and the way texts are received in translation by new audiences. The distinctiveness of the volume lies in the fact that it considers these fundamental aspects of literary translation together and in terms of their interconnections. Contributors examine a wide variety of texts, including world classics, poetry, genre fiction, transnational literature, and life writing from around the world. Both theoretical and empirical issues are covered, with some contributors approaching the topic as practitioners of literary translation, and others writing from within the academy.

Author : Tobias Jones
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571274951
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood on the Altar written by Tobias Jones and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughter's disappearance, but he is protected by local big-wigs: by his Sicilian father, by a doctor with links to organised crime, by a priest who had vices of his own. Years went by and Elisa's family could find only false leads. 2002, and Restivo is now living in Bournemouth. In November that year, his neighbour is found murdered, with strands of her own hair in her hands. Once again the police are at a loss to pin anything on him. It's not until 2010, when Elisa's decomposed body is found in the church where she went missing, that the two cases are linked and Restivo is finally dealt with. Blood on the Altar combines a gripping true crime case with Jones's deep understanding of Italian culture - the impunity it offers to the powerful - he so expertly demonstrated in his bestseller: The Dark Heart of Italy.

Author : Tobias Jones
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 1466804513
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Heart of Italy written by Tobias Jones and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year voyage across the Italian peninsula. Jones writes not just about Italy's art, climate, and cuisine but also about the much livelier and stranger sides of the Bel Paese: the language, soccer, Catholicism, cinema, television, and terrorism. Why, he wonders, does the parliament need a "slaughter commission"? Why do bombs still explode every time politics start getting serious? Why does everyone urge him to go home as soon as possible, saying that Italy is a "brothel"? Most of all, why does one man, Silvio Berlusconi--in the words of a famous song--appear to own everything from Padre Nostro (Our Father) to Cosa Nostra (the Mafia)? The Italy that emerges from Jones's travels is a country scarred by civil wars and "illustrious corpses"; a country that is proudly visual rather than verbal, based on aesthetics rather than ethics; a country where crime is hardly ever followed by punishment; a place of incredible illusionism, where it is impossible to distinguish fantasy from reality and fact from fiction.

Author : Myres S Mac Dougal
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789024729111
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power and Policy in Quest of the Law written by Myres S Mac Dougal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1985-09-30 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathryn L Reyerson
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580445152
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Notaries and Their Acts written by Kathryn L Reyerson and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the beginnings of the continental European notarial tradition, acquainting readers with the format of notarial documents, the books containing notarial acts, and with the variety of notarial acts. Sample documents have been selected for their interest and their illustration of specific types of contracts. All are from the 1327-28 notarial registry of Jean Holanie, the royal public notary of Montpellier.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hazeltine Research, Inc. V. Dage Electric Company, Inc written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tobias Jones
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571237142
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Death written by Tobias Jones and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Castagnetti, a bee-keeping private detective, is hired by a businessman to find out who set fire to his car and why. It seems like a dead-end case, nothing more than an instance of mindless vandalism. But before long the businessman is getting threatening phonecalls, his factory is burnt to the ground and an employee loses his life.