Death in a strange country
(Book)

"A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery"--Cover.

"First published in the United States of America by HarperCollins Publishers 1993. First published in Great Britain by Chapman Publishers ... 1993. Published in Penguin Books 2005. Reprinted by arrangement with Grove/Atlantic, Inc. This edition published 2008"--Title page verso.

"Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient. When something is discovered in the victim's apartment that suggests the existence of a high level conspiracy, Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere, is taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime"--Cover p. [4].