Magdalen Nabb: Death of a Dutchman (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
Summoned by an aged woman to investigate mysterious noises in the vacant flat next to hers, Marshal Guarnaccia discovers a dying Dutch jeweler. The old lady had known him when he was a boy growing up in Florence. Could he have returned to the family home just to commit suicide? Or could the man be the victim of a cunning murderer?

Praise for the Marshal Guarnaccia series:
"This elegant series, which began in 1981 with Deatb of an Englishman... is set in Florence, a city that glows in the Tuscan sun.... [His] sense of estrangement accounts for Guarnaccia's special perspective on strangers, those innocents' among the living and the dead." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Lean, elegant prose that surpasses the best of Simenon, along with a puckish view of the Florentines from Guarnaccia's Sicilian perspective." -- Kirkus Reviews

"The richest mystery here, however, is Florence itself, whose intricate politics and class structure Nabb parses with precision and wit." -- Washington Post

"Great local atmosphere and rich characterizations." -Publishers Weekly "[A] superb series... A working-man's Maigret." -- Booklist

"Strongly recommended for readers who like sophisticated, literate mysteries in foreign settings." -- Library Journal

Magdalen Nabb: Death of a Dutchman. Soho Press, ISBN: 1569474826 (December, 2007), 216 p., $12.00.

Magdalen Nabb: Death of a Dutchman (UK 2005)

From the Publisher:
Classic Italian crime fiction by the Donna Leon of Florence, the acclaimed Magdalen Nabb
There was enough trouble around to keep the police busy for months. All over Florence tourists were being robbed, cars stolen, and somewhere in the city terrorists were quietly at work. So the suicide of a Dutch jeweller looked like an open and shut case. Certainly there were some slight discrepancies. But the only witnesses were a blind man, and an old woman given to vicious lying. Yet the Marshal felt uneasy - it was all so conveniently simple...

Magdalen Nabb: Death of a Dutchman. Arrow, ISBN: 0099489910 (September, 2005), 273 p., £6.99.

Magdalen Nabb: Death of a Dutchman (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
The death of the jeweler in his Florence apartment had all the earmarks of suicide, but Marshal Guarnaccia smelled murder...
In the course of paying a kindly visit to an elderly recluse, Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Florentine carabinieri discovers a dying man next door. A barbiturate overdose and glass-slashed hands suggest suicide, but the Dutch jeweler's last words; oddly, are "It wasn't her."

Puzzled and suspicious, the dedicated Marshal must fight his way through official red tape, hordes of tourists, the soggy July heat, and the dead Dutchman's troubled past in order to reach the truth.

"A masterpiece by a real 'pro,' one of the most original of all" -- Georges Simenon

"The past-haunted solution is reminiscent of Agatha Christie... The mood, however, is Simenonesque... A likable mixture overall... affectionately textured with gentle Italian comedy." -- Kirkus Reviews

Magdalen Nabb: Death of a Dutchman. Penguin, ISBN: 0140069356 (June, 1984), 224 p., $3.50.

Magdalen Nabb: Death of a Dutchman (UK 1983)

From the Publisher:
There was enough trouble around to keep the police busy for months. All over Florence tourists were being robbed, cars stolen, and somewhere in the city terrorists were quietly at work. So the suicide of a Dutch jeweller looked like an open and shut case. Certainly there were some slight discrepancies. But the only witnesses were a blind man, and an old woman given to vicious lying. Yet the Marshal felt uneasy - it was all so conveniently simple...

'Human... thorough as her splendid first... solidly convincing' -- THE OBSERVER
'This talented author' -- DAILY MAIL
'One of the most original of all crime writers' -- GEORGES SIMENON

Magdalen Nabb: Death of a Dutchman. London: Fontana, 1983, ISBN: 0006167756, 216 p., £1.50.