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The Assisi Murders

Bullied by his redoubtable sister into accompanying her on a ‘pilgrimage’ to Assisi, Commissario Achille Peroni, ‘the Rudolf Valentino of the Italian police', finds himself lusting after a fellow pilgrim, the beautiful and mysterious Signora Elisa Guidi. But before he can make his advances, the lady is behind bars on a charge of shooting her lover.

Peroni leaps to the defence. His independent investigation leads him back to a complex thirteenth-century mystery and to the letters of a remarkable woman, a confidante of St. Francis himself. Perplexing antique evidence which casts new light on the crime of passion before Peroni...

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 184
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780708830772
  • Genres
  • italy, mystery
  • Release date
  • 1988