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Michael Dibdin
Dirty Tricks is a very British, very black comedy, complete with kidnapping, blackmail, and a couple of murders. When the nameless narrator returns to Oxford after 20 years abroad, everyone…
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In this arresting story, Dibdin utilizes the skills he mastered in his crime writing to great effect as he imagines the precipice of insanity and the extremes of passion and…
Zen is posted to remote Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot. And beneath the surface of a tight-knit, traditional community he discovers that violent forces are at work…
In The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, Michael Dibdin pits the sleuth of Baker Street against the Butcher of Whitechapel–the archfiend Jack the Ripper. In doing so, he gives readers a…
One of England’s most critically acclaimed mystery writers offers what is at once an affectionate homage to and an audacious satire of the classic drawing room murder mystery, in which…
The interconnected lives of police detectives investigating multiple murders, a family man whose life has been destroyed by seemingly random events, and members of a mysterious cult all revolve around…
Gathers fifty-four short stories by such writers as James Joyce, William Faulkner, James Thurber, Patricia Highsmith, Walter Mosley, and James M. Cain.
A London psychiatrist with a fading marriage is haunted by a young man who comes to her in a panic, begging to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital for protection…
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Establishing Dibdin as a master of the historical mystery, A Rich Full Death begins in 1855 Florence at the hanging of Isabel Eaken. Engrossing, lively, lush with details, this evocative…
When the corpse of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee…
Set against the backdrop of the 3,000-year-old city of Catania, in the shadow of the smoldering volcano of Etna, Blood Rain reveals Inspector Aurelio Zen at his most desperate and…
348 393 9028: MEDUSA. He keyed in the number, then turned to face the hillside behind the villa. When a group of Austrian cavers in the Italian Alps come across…
When, one dark night in November, Prince Ludovico Ruspanti fell a hundred and fifty feet to his death in the chapel at St. Peter’s, Rome, there were a number of…
Michael Dibdin’s first Aurelio Zen mystery finds his stoic, philosophical Italian police commissioner investigating the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist. However, the closer Zen peers into the…
A classic Aurelio Zen mystery.
Overburdened Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is transferred to Naples and is soon embroiled in a romantic intrigue involving love-sick gangsters and prostitutes, in this bawdy, suspenseful, and splendidly farcical…
Dennis and Karen lead a pleasant life in North Oxford until the day one of their dinner guests seduces Karen in the kitchen, setting in motion a chain of events…
Like all of Dibdin’s books, part of what makes us care is a vivid sense of what foggy streets smell like, or of the delicate sounds of a near-silent remote…
A thrilling Victorian mystery from the creator of the bestselling Aurelio Zen series.
In the Italian Criminalpol officer Aurelio Zen, Dibdin has given the mystery genre one of its most intriguing protagonists: a man wearily trying to enforce the law in a society…
On orders emanating from high above the usual police bureaucracy, Venetian police inspector Aurelio Zen is sent to Sardinia to arrest someone–anyone–for the murder of an eccentric billionaire whose corrupt…
A hugely acclaimed and wickedly thrilling Aurelio Zen mystery.
Master crime writer Dibdin plunges Aurelio Zen into a nether world of Church spies, secret societies, cover-ups, and mistaken identities when a death at the Vatican arouses suspicion of a…
Dibdin gives readers a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen. In this new mystery, Zen returns to his native Venice, searching for a missing American…
The final Aurelio Zen novel from the master of Italian crime fiction, following Michael Dibdin’s sad death in 2007.
Inspector Zen has been posted to Naples in disgrace, where he is asked to oversee the clean-up of the city’s corrupt authorities. Like the rest of Italy, Naples is concerned…
From the acclaimed author of the Aurelio Zen mysteries comes a classic must-read for all fans of Sherlock Holmes!
Fresh from the successful investigation of a series of crimes in Naples, that admirably devious and dour Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen returns to his office in Rome to discover…
Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a rich American resident .
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In this masterpiece of psychological suspense, Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist.
Hiding out at a Tuscan beach resort following months in the hospital recuperating from wounds received in car bombing, Aurelio Zen of Rome’s elite Criminalpol is waiting to testify at…
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Michael Dibdin,Rosalie Kerr
Word count 9,680
