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Dead Lagoon

Dead Lagoon

by Michael Dibdin (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $3.29

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    Hardcover 1994

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Synopsis

An Aurelio Zen mystery. Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a wealthy American resident, but soon learns that, amid the hazy light and shifting waters of the lagoon, nothing is what it seems.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 05 Aug 2004
ISBN 10: 0571173470
ISBN 13: 9780571173471

Media Reviews
Surprisingly moving . . . a first-rate mystery and a fine novel. -- Washington Post Book World Dibdin's plot is as elegantly elaborate as the crisscrossing canals of Venice. -- Newsday The author has transcended his own superb craftsmanship by working [two] story lines into a structure of pure steel, and by making it the foundation of a serious study of modern-day Venice. -- The New York Times Book Review From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author Bio
Michael Dibdin was born in 1947. He went to school in Northern Ireland, and later to Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He lives in Seattle.After completing his first novel, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, in 1978, he spent four years in Italy teaching English at the University of Perugia. His second novel, A Rich Full Death, was published in 1986. It was followed by Ratking in 1988, which won the Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the year and introduced us to his Italian detective - Inspector Aurelio Zen. In 1989 The Tryst was published to great acclaim and was followed by Vendetta in 1990, the second story in the Zen series. Dirty Tricks was published in 1991. Inspector Zen made his third appearance in Cabal, which was published in 1992. The Dying of the Light, an Agatha Christie pastiche, was published in 1993. His fourth Zen novel, Dead Lagoon, was published the follow