Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal's Own Case (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
For the first time, Marshal Guarnaccia is assigned to be lead on a murder investigation. When the dismembered body of a beautiful woman turns out to be that of a transsexual prostitute, the marshal must leave his snug home near the Pitti Palace for the shadowy underworld of Florence's sex trade. Another transsexual is then arrested for the murder, but the marshal is convinced the Carabinieri have made a mistake. Can he find proof before the man he believes to be innocent is confined to life in prison?

Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal's Own Case. A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation. Soho Press, ISBN: 9781569477670 (September, 2008), 218 p., $13.00.

Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal's Own Case (UK / USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
A transsexual is dead. Now the Marshal must solve a mystery greater than just the gender of the corpse.
Lulu, a transsexual prostitute, has been found brutally murdered and dismembered in a park in Florence, Italy. Nobody wants this difficult murder case, especially not Marshal Guarnaccia. Forced to move into an alien, shadowy city of which he knows little and understands less, the Marshal faces his greatest challenge. Although an arrest is made after only a few days, he can't believe that the hot-tempered, unbalanced suspect could have planned and perpetrated such a cold-blooded and complicated murder. But the Marshal must confront the Public Prosecutor and battle with his own prejudices before he can discover the startling answer.

"As a piece of reportage of an exotic stratum of an exotic city, the book is remarkable for its warm compassion as well as its credibility." -- Los Angeles Times

Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal's Own Case. A Marshal Guarnaccia Mystery. Penguin, ISBN: 0140143238 (July, 1991), 175 p., £3.50, $4.95.

Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal's Own Case (UK 1990)

From the Publisher:
Everybody hated Lulu alive, and Lulu dead was even leos of an attractive proposition. Nobody warted this nauseating and impossible case, especially not Marshal Guaracoia, wrenched from his peacet. Station within the Pits Palace and forced to move in an aben, shadowy Florence of which he knew little and understood nothing. There had been other cases of the sort. The files were all marked "Unsolved". Nobody expected a solution this time, either, and everyone concerned was both amazed and impressed when an arrest was made ater only a few days. Everyone except the Marshal. Despite all the evidence, he couldn't see the hot-tempered, unbalanced Peppina planning and perpetrating such a cold-blooded and complicated murder: the sleeping draught, the deadly blows, the long wait - especially the long, inexplicable wait - and then what had been done to the body...

But if Peppina's version was true, where was the body during that long wait, and where was the witness with no real name? The Marshal had to battle with his own prejudices, with the Public Prosecutor and with the problems coming to a head within his own family before he found what he was looking for. 'Everybody hated Lulu' - until the Marshal found somebody who didn't.

Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal's Own Case. Collins Crime Club, ISBN: 000232217X (February, 1990), 192 p., £11.95.