The Disappearance of Signora Giulia

Piero Chiara
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When the sad, beautiful Signora Giulia goes missing without a trace from her Lake Como villa home, it is her husband who reports her disappearance to the detective Sciancalepre, and so the search begins - one that takes Sciancalepre beneath the tranquil surface of local bourgeois society, a world of snobbery and secrets, while mysterious shadows lurk in the grounds of the family villa . . . As his investigation gathers pace this atmospheric classic detective story becomes a thrilling game of legal cat and mouse.
Genres: MysteryCrimeFictionItalyItalian LiteratureMystery ThrillerThrillerNovellaNovels20th Century
128 Pages

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