Florence,1855. "The English are dying too much," the city's police chief observes. And members of the foreign community in this quaint Italian backwater, both English and American, are indeed dying at an alarming rate and in an...

348 393 9028: MEDUSA. He keyed in the number, then turned to face the hillside behind the villa. When a group of Austrian cavers in the Italian Alps come across human remains at the bottom of a deep shaft, everyone assumes the death was...

Biding his time on a routine assignment in remote Calabria, Aurelio Zen finds himself investigating the sudden disappearance of an advance scout for an American film company, in a case that enmeshes him in the centuries-old secrets of...

Three women have been savagely murdered. To calm the public outcry, Scotland Yard approaches London's most eminent detective, Sherlock Holmes, and asks him to investigate the killer. Can Holmes solve the mystery of Jack the Ripper? von...

The dead man followed the track until it rose above the last remaining trees and ceased to be a rough line of beaten earth and scruffy grass, to become a stony ramp hewn out of the cliff face and deeply rutted by the abrasive force of...