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Some Bitter Taste

Magdalen Nabb
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      When it comes to motives for crime, the past can never be forgotten. Sara Hirsch is a nervous elderly spinster who still lives in the flat above a long-standing Florentine antiquities shop in which she was raised. Frightened, she calls Marshal Guarnaccia for help, sure that strangers have been in her apartment. The marshal knows she is a lonely old woman but he is preoccupied with an investigation into an Albanian prostitution ring. Before he can respond to her latest alarm, she is found dead. The marshal's search for the villains who precipitated her death brings him into confrontation with the past, with Jewish refugees from fascism, and with English expatriates, including the ailing heir to the elegant Villa L'Uliveto, Sir Christopher Wrothesly-

      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Magdalen Nabb EAN: 9780099443360 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 320 WEIGHT: 1718 g HEIGHT: 178 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cornerstone DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-02-05 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General WIDTH: 110 mm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Crime and mystery fiction

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      Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire in 1947 and trained as a potter. She has lived in Florence since 1975, where she pursues a dual career as crime writer and children's author.

      When it comes to motives for crime, the past can never be forgotten. Sara Hirsch is a nervous elderly spinster who still lives in the flat above a long-standing Florentine antiquities shop in which she was raised. Frightened, she calls Marshal Guarnaccia for help, sure that strangers have been in her apartment. The marshal knows she is a lonely old woman but he is preoccupied with an investigation into an Albanian prostitution ring. Before he can respond to her latest alarm, she is found dead. The marshal's search for the villains who precipitated her death brings him into confrontation with the past, with Jewish refugees from fascism, and with English expatriates, including the ailing heir to the elegant Villa L'Uliveto, Sir Christopher Wrothesly-

      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Magdalen Nabb EAN: 9780099443360 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 320 WEIGHT: 1718 g HEIGHT: 178 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cornerstone DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-02-05 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General WIDTH: 110 mm SPINE:

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      Crime and mystery fiction

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      Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire in 1947 and trained as a potter. She has lived in Florence since 1975, where she pursues a dual career as crime writer and children's author.

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