By its cover
By: Donna Leon
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery -- book 23; Thorndike Press large print mystery; Thorndike Press large print mystery series
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781410467270
Subjects: Libraries; Murder; Police; Investigation; Large type books; Fiction
Description: One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem--the man fled the library earlier that day, and after checking his credentials, the American professor doesn't exist. As the investigation proceeds, the suspects multiply. And when a seemingly harmless theologian, who had spent years reading at the library turns up brutally murdered, Brunetti must question his expectations about what makes a man innocent, or guilty.