Book description
Young Bostonian Robert Booth manoeuvres an entree into the
Florentine residence of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. When Mr
Browning is called away, Booth follows him - and is brought to the
village of his childhood sweetheart, who is now hanging by the neck
from a tree in the garden.
Michael Dibdin was born in 1947. He went to school in Northern
Ireland, and later to Sussex University and the University of Alberta
in Canada. He lived in Seattle. After completing his first novel, The
Last Sherlock Holmes Story, in 1978, he spent four years in Italy
teaching English at the University of Perugia. His second novel, A
Rich Full Death, was published in 1986. It was followed by Ratking in
1988, which won the Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the
year and introduced us to his Italian detective - Inspector Aurelio
Zen. His last novel, End Games, was published posthumously in July 2007.
