London: UK: Faber & Faber, 2003. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges beginning to age tone else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. When Austrian cavers exploring some abandoned military tunnels in the Italian Alps come across human remains, everyone assumes the death was accidental, until the unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and there is a news blackout. Aurelio Zen is charged with finding out the truth.. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Book.

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When a group of Austrian cavers exploring a network of abandoned military tunnels in the Italian alps come across human remains at the bottom of a deep shaft, everyone assumes the death was accidental - until the still unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and the Defence Ministry puts a news blackout on the case. And is the recent car bombing in Campione d'Italia, a tiny tax haven surrounded on all sides by Switzerland, somehow related? The whole affair has the whiff of political intrigue. That's enough to interest Aurelio Zen's boss at the Interior Ministry, who wants to know who is hiding what from who and why.The search for the truth leads Zen back into the murky history of post-war Italy and obscure corners of modern-day society to uncover the truth about a crime that everyone thought was as dead and buried as the victim.

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Bookseller: Murder By The Book (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 020333
Title: MEDUSA: An Aurelio Zen Mystery
Author: Dibdin, Michael
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Book Condition: New
Jacket Condition: As New
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0571216587
ISBN 13: 9780571216581
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Place of Publication: London: UK
Date Published: 2003
Keywords: Mystery, Crime, Police.Italy, The Alps,
Bookseller catalogs: ITALY;

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