The Marshal at the Villa Torrini

By Magdalen Nabb

Book Overview

The ninth installment in the popular series featuring Florentine Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia has the portly policeman investigating an accident involving a famous author. (Nabb's) scenes are so cleverly constructed that even her most bizarre characters seem fully formed and touchingly human.--Chicago Tribune.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006016915X
• ISBN13: 9780060169152
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

An Italian Maigret

Very much in the spirit of Simenon's Maigret series, Magdalen Nabb's Marshal Guarnaccia mysteries are equal parts procedural insight, portrait of society, and character study. Nabb captures the spirit of real police work, especially when complicated by the politics and bureaucracy that dominate present-day Italy. She also presents Florence in all its beauty and tawdriness, as seen through the eyes of her southern-born hero. The Marshal is a marvellous creation, an eternal outsider who thinks himself to be slow and is regularly underestimated by colleagues and criminals alike. Nabb's books are too often underestimated as well--by the likes of people who cannot spell either aficionado or eccentric--which is a shame. While Michael Dibdin's fine books centering on the adventures of Aurelio Zen are more sensational, Nabb's Guarnaccia novels have every bit as much heart and shrewd observation. I recommend them all and devoutly wish that *The Monster of Florence* would finally be published in the U. S.