Summary
Through A Glass, Darkly (Heinemann, Pounds 15.99) by Donna Leon It's springtime in Venice and the return of the tourists brings in its wake "the usual mess, just as the migration of wildebeest lures the jackals and hyenas".
While pickpockets resume dipping in the Piazza San Marco, a night worker has tripped over on Murano. Or was he pushed? As he fell in front of one of the glassmaking furnaces - internal temperature 1,400 degrees centigrade - and lay there all night, the corpse is done to a turn. It certainly turns the stomach of Guido Brunetti when he niffs it.See the full content of this document
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Crime
Corruption of all kinds wafts throug...
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