The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

A Long Finish

A Long Finish

by Michael Dibdin (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2004

    $4.23

  • Used

    Paperback 1998

    $3.28
Synopsis

After his adventures in Cosi Fan Tutti, Aurelio Zen finds himself back in Rome, sneezing in a damp wine cellar and being given another unorthodox assignment - to release the jailed scion of an important wine-growing family.

$4.23

Save:$4.62 (52%)

Quantity

2 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 05 Aug 2004
ISBN 10: 0571197191
ISBN 13: 9780571197194
Prizes: Shortlisted for CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction 1998.

Media Reviews
Once again, Dibdin delivers unforgettable characters in a tightly woven plot. -- The Globe and Mail Dibdin has a gift for shocking the unshockable reader. He writes the unmentionable, calmly and with devastating effect. --Ruth Rendell
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