Bibliograph

Viper, no resurrection for Commissario Ricciardi, by Maurizio De Giovanni ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar

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Viper, no resurrection for Commissario Ricciardi, by Maurizio De Giovanni ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Viper

Oclc number

899704950

Responsibility statement

by Maurizio De Giovanni ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar

Series statement

A Commissario Ricciardi mystery

Sub title

no resurrection for Commissario Ricciardi

Summary

Springtime proffers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples. But evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swears that when he left her she was alive and well. But when her next client arrived, he found her dead. Who killed her and why? Ricciardi has to untangle a complex knot of greed, frustration, jealousy and rancor in order to solve the riddle of Viper's death. As he does so, he will discover no end of conflicting emotions just beneath the surface of a city that lives on passion

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