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Tightly plotted, engaging and atmospheric, this classic from the inventor of the Italian "Whydunit" will keep you guessing until the last page.

When the clerk arrived to unlock the bookstore on Via Corridoni, the last thing he expected to find inside was a dead Senator. . . Now Inspector De Vincenzi has been assigned the case and the only clue is a missing copy of a rare book, La Zaffetta, taken from the room where the Senator lies dead. As the bodies begin to pile up, supernatural forces se...