The Golden Egg: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery #22
by Donna Leon
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- like new/llike new
- ISBN 10
- 0802121012
- ISBN 13
- 9780802121011
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
In like-new condition, dust jacket very minimal wear along edge from storage, no wear on covers, spine intact no creases. No markings on any pages. Front and back inside cover shows illustrated map of the setting.
"In The Golden Egg, as the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to look into a minor shop-keeping violation committed by the mayor's future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass political favors, but he has little choice but to comply. Then Brunetti's wife, Paola, comes to him with a request of her own. The mentally handicapped man who worked at their dry cleaner has just died of a sleeping pill overdose, and Paola loathes the idea that he lived and died without anyone noticing him, or helping him.Brunetti begins to investigate the death and is surprised when he finds nothing on the man: no birth certificate, no passport, no driver's license, no credit cards. As far as the Italian government is concerned, he never existed. Stranger still, the dead man's mother refuses to speak to the police, and assures Brunetti that her son's identification papers were stolen in a burglary. As secrets unravel, Brunetti suspects that the Lembos, an aristocratic family, might be somehow connected to the death. But why would anyone want this sweet, simple-minded man dead?"
Donna Leon was born in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1942. She is the author of thirty-two crime novels that take place in Venice, Italy, and feature Commissario Guido Brunetti as the protagonist, with support characters that help him solve the crimes. While not much is known about her, Donna has been praised by fans and critics alike for her work, which is found by most to be thoughtful and descriptive by content.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16-2023
- Title
- The Golden Egg
- Author
- Donna Leon
- Illustrator
- none
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- llike new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- second edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0802121012
- ISBN 13
- 9780802121011
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, USA
- Date Published
- 2013
- Pages
- 276
- Size
- 23 x 16 x 2.6 cm
- Keywords
- Mystery, Fiction, Donna Leon, Commissario Guido Brunetti
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art
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Oakville, Ontario
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