Title : The Investigations of Inspector Brunetti - Volume 22 - The Boy Who Didn't Talk - Donna Leon - book
Summary :
As autumn leaves begin to fall on the streets of Venice, Vice-Quaestor Patta tasks Commissioner Brunetti with investigating an offense committed by the mask shop on Campo San Barnaba owned by the mayor's future daughter-in-law.
But now his wife, Paola, also presents him with a request. The man, probably mentally handicapped, who worked in their dry cleaners, has just died of an overdose of sleeping pills. Paola cannot bear the thought that no one ever noticed or helped him, in life or in death. Also intrigued by the death of this character he had crossed paths with for many years, Brunetti begins researching behind his superior's back.
To his great surprise, he finds nothing about this man: no birth certificate, no passport, no credit card. According to the Italian authorities, he never existed. Even stranger, his mother refuses to speak to the police and insists that her son's identity papers were stolen during a burglary.
As the revelations unfold, we discover that an aristocratic family, the Lembos, seems to be involved in this mysterious death. But why would these powerful and influential people have eliminated this unfortunate simpleton?
- EAN: 9782702154526
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