{"product_id":"dead-lagoon-an-aurelio-zen-mystery-9780679753117","title":"Dead Lagoon: An Aurelio Zen Mystery","description":"Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in \u003ci\u003eDead Lagoon\u003c\/i\u003e, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may be tomorrow's defendants.Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-demented \u003ci\u003econtessa\u003c\/i\u003e and a vanished American millionaire whose family is paying Zen under the table to determine his whereabouts-dead or alive. But he keeps stumbling over corpses that are distressingly concrete: from the crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's noisome \"black wells\" to a brand-new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. The result is a mystery rich in character and deduction, and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679753117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.15h x 5.19w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/21\/1996 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michael Dibdin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43049464398005,"sku":"9780679753117","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_136a4194-edec-4a05-98d0-c455609960f5.jpg?v=1689689978","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dead-lagoon-an-aurelio-zen-mystery-9780679753117","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}