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A socialite asks Guido Brunetti to investigate a murder that happened in the underworld surrounding southern Italy's garbage dumping grounds.

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Main Author:	Leon, Donna
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2009.
Edition:	1st American ed.
Subjects:	Brunetti, Guido > (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Police > Italy > Fiction. Mafia > Fiction. Refuse and refuse disposal > Fiction. Naples (Italy) > Fiction. Mystery fiction > Italy.
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Summary:	A socialite asks Guido Brunetti to investigate a murder that happened in the underworld surrounding southern Italy's garbage dumping grounds.
Item Description:	First published in 2009 in the United Kingdom by William Heinemann, the Random House Group Limited, London. "A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery" --Dust jacket Map on endpapers.
Physical Description:	278 p. : map ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	9780802118967 0802118968
Author Notes:	Donna Leon was born on September 29, 1942 in Montclair, New Jersey. She taught English literature in England, Switzerland, Iran, China, Italy and Saudi Arabia. She is the author of a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery series. Friends in High Places, a novel from the series, won the Crime Writers Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction in 2000. German Television has produced 16 Commissario Brunetti mysteries for broadcast. She was a crime reviewer for the Sunday Times. She has written the libretto for a comic opera and has set up her own opera company, Il Complesso Barocco. Her titles Jewels of Pardise, The Golden Egg, By Its Cover, Falling in Love and The Waters of Eternal Youth made The New York Times Bestseller List. (Bowker Author Biography)