The Devil and the Dolce Vita (Achilli Peroni, Book 3)

U.S.A.: Walker & Co, 1988. Book. Illus. by McBarnette, Laurie (jacket design). New. Hardcover. First American Edition. A Walker Mystery hardback book. 1st American printing , Book condition is as new, no wear, writing or stamps, Dust Jacket has slight rubbing from storage otherwise also in like new ........WRAPPED IN PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK............We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books, please contact us for more iinformation**...... SUMMARY - Inspector Peroni, a Neapolitan, is on duty in Venice when a girl known as Khezia (who appears to have been a vagrant singer) disappears. It looks like rountine police business except that Peroni, ever susceptible, becomes obsessed with the idea of her, and is driven on by more than duty...the disappearance proves to be the tip of a huge iceberg: for among the super-rich of Venice an ambitious plot is being hatched in which the Cult of Satanism is to be popularized with some very mixed and sinister intentions. Peroni himself is invited to a seanc that is in the nature of a Black Mass: influenced by weird hysteria of the occasion he is then offered an immense bribe. Peroni is not averse to the promotion, to stardom, to the good life. In the end it is not promotion that lies in Peroni's path, but imprisonment and the prospect of death....