Ghirlandaio's Daughter [Award Nominee]

London, United Kingdom: Constable Crime, 1997. First edition. Page edges beginning to age tone else fine in dust jacket. The second and last entry in the great Carlo Arbati series. Italy. An ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD NOMINEE. "Cops in crime novels should know better than to take vacations. When Florentine poet and police inspector Carlo Arbati (Adam Dalgliesh, Italian style) agrees to accept a literary award in nearby Lucca, you know he's walking into trouble. First an American is impaled by the bronze spear of a Mycenaean warrior, and then another American mysteriously drops dead at the reception following Arbati's award ceremony. Arbati agrees to assist his friend and fellow cop Giorgio Bruni in the investigation, which soon uncovers an elaborate art-fraud scheme involving members of the Luccan expatriate community. This second Arbati mystery, following The Last Castrato (1995), clearly establishes Hill's series as a contender in the growing European procedural sweepstakes. Arbati combines Dalgliesh's poetic sensibility with a continental joie de vivre that proves irresistible, and the supporting cast of idiosyncratic expatriates is an equal delight." -- BOOKLIST. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Pastor, Terry. Book.