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Three-card monte

Title
Three-card monte / Marco Malvaldi ; translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis.
Author
Malvaldi, Marco, 1974-
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2014.

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TextUse in library JFD 14-4079Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Additional Authors
Curtis, Howard, 1949-
Description
168 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
At the Bar Lume, with the exception of the bartender Massimo and his assistant, the beautiful and kindly Tiziana, the youngest regular customer is Aldo, seventy-something owner of the Osteria Boccaccio. Then come his longtime friends, each one older than the former. Their principle, indeed their only activity is sitting around at the Bar Lume ostensibly playing cards but in reality analyzing, postulating, gossiping, and chronicling every event that occurs in their small Tuscan town, their talk laced with colorful tuscan slang and figures of speech. Massimo, all intuition but tending toward inaction, is obliged to investigate a homicide on behalf of his all-too-curious clientele and by Commissario Fusco of the local police. The old-timers provide a running commentary and play devil's advocate to any and all theories concerning the perpetrators of the crime. Their cunning at three-card monte has taught them how to see past appearances to the truth that lies behind. An Italian Comedy, a beguiling Italian mystery, and a vivacious portrayal of small-town Italy all wrapped into one.
Series Statement
  • Bar Lume mystery
  • World noir
Uniform Title
  • Gioco delle tre carte. English
  • World noir.
Alternative Title
Gioco delle tre carte.
Subject
  • Bartenders > Fiction
  • Congresses and conventions > Fiction
  • Murder > Investigation > Fiction
  • Italy > Fiction
Genre/Form
Detective and mystery fiction.
Call Number
JFD 14-4079
ISBN
  • 9781609452056 (pbk.)
  • 1609452054 (pbk.)
OCLC
861479161
Author
Malvaldi, Marco, 1974- author.
Title
Three-card monte / Marco Malvaldi ; translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis.
Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Bar Lume mystery
World noir
World noir.
Added Author
Curtis, Howard, 1949- translator.
Research Call Number
JFD 14-4079
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