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1990s – This book has been published as both The Anonymous Venetian and Dressed for Death, so if a book has two names, does this not up the intrigue? A book with two personalties?
The Anonymous Venetian (Brunetti 3)
What you need to know before your trail
Commissario Brunetti’s hopes of a quiet family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera – a body so badly beaten the face is unrecognizable.
Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the dead man. But he is met with a wall of silence.
Until he receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some significant information.
However, before the night is out Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling and apparently senseless death . .
Travel Guide
After the horrible murders at La Fenice and in the canals of Venice in the first three books, it’s no surprise that Brunetti is in well need of a holiday.
However he is soon called back to the Marghera -an industrial site on swampy land just outside of Venice. It’s the blood of the slaughterhouse there that we and Brunetti first notice –
“The shoe was red, the red of London phone booths”
“He saw the shoe lying drunkenly on its side. He saw it there and, of course, he also thought of blood”
This place, this Marghera is the scene of death –
The fields around the slaughter house stood empty; as if obeying a taboo as deep as blood itself….
Against a background of a stench of offal, the pounding sun and the chaos of the upcoming Ferragosto festivities in the city, Brunetti has a lot to deal with.
But this book also shares a lot about Brunetti and his love of his city and of its food. Its not all murder and death –
“The heat usually robbed Brunetti of all appetite, but that night he found himself really hungry… He stopped at Rialto on the way home, surprised to find some of the fruit and vegetable stalls still open after eight”
Then he gets home and reads a book – the annals of Imperial Rome – “These Romans murdered, betrayed, and did violence to honour and to one another. How like us they were, Brunetti reflected”.
Brunetti belongs in Venice and Venice belongs in him.
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