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1	Dressed for Death more books like this by Donna Leon add to wishlist Respectable Venetians hardly notice the murder of a transvestite prostitute until the body is identified as the staid director of the Banca di Verona. Commissario of police Guido Brunetti follows a trail through tawdry underworld alleys, down sparkling thoroughfares, and straight into the unwelcoming homes of Venice's most powerful citizens. When ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Othello more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist This newly revised Signet classic includes an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, a unique introduction to the play, a comprehensive stage history of notable actors, and historical and contemporary dramatic criticism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Wilful behaviour more books like this by Donna Leon add to wishlist When one of his wife's Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued and attracted by the girl's intelligence and moral seriousness. But when the girl is ... see all copies from $10.12! new only from $10.12!
4	Merchant of Venice more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist This edition presents a fresh examination of the text and all the important aspects of its significance and meaning. It is based upon the first printed edition, the Quarto of 1600. This edition has been collated against the second quarto, the Pavier Quarto of 1619 (falsely dated 1619), as well as against the First Folio of 1623, from which some ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Friends in high places more books like this by Donna Leon add to wishlist Venetian cop, Commissario Guido Brunetti, wonders whom he knows to bring pressure on a local government department, to investigate the lack of official building approval on his apartment. But when that same official phones him at work, clearly scared by some information he plans to give Brunetti, and is later found dead after a fall from ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Blood from a Stone more books like this by Donna Leon add to wishlist Once again, Commissario Guido Brunetti sets himself against the corrupt bureaucracies of both the Venetian police and the Italian government in the 14th mystery to star the detective with an inconvenient sense of integrity. Two men use silenced pistols to gun down an illegal Senegalese immigrant selling knockoffs of designer handbags. It looks ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Quietly in Their Sleep more books like this by Donna Leon add to wishlist In this latest installment of the Commissario Brunetti mysteries, Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who is leaving her convent following the unexpected death of five patients. At first she discovers nothing amiss, but then stumbles onto something very sinister. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.96! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Death and Judgment more books like this by Donna Leon add to wishlist Someone is killing Italy's prominent businessmen, and, at first glance, the murders appear unrelated. However, Venice's most charming and tenacious detective, Vice-Commissario Guido Brunetti, suspects a fatal link. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery more books like this by Donna Leon add to wishlist There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti, the suave, urbane vice-commissario of police and a genius at detection. Now all of his admirable abilities must come into play in the deadly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.45! \| SVS
10	A Thousand Days in Venice more books like this by Marlena De Blasi add to wishlist Expecting nothing, a divorced, middle-aged woman from Missouri vacationing in Venice whimsically accepts a date with a man named Fernando and, miraculously, finds true love. Here she recalls the details of their rapid courtship, their marriage, and the aftermath. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.19! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice more books like this by Margaret F Rosenthal, Catharine R Stimpson (Foreword by) add to wishlist The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the "cortigiana onesta" - the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546 ... see all copies from $10.83! new only from $24.89! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Thief Lord more books like this by Cornelia Funke add to wishlist Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with Venice's "Thief Lord.". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The City of Falling Angels more books like this by John Berendt add to wishlist A murder in Savannah inspired John Berendt's previous book, the blockbuster bestseller MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL. This time, the location is Venice, and the 1996 inferno which destroyed Venice's beloved opera house, La Fenice, serves as the touchstone for John Berendt's quirky exploration of the city and its most colorful inhabitants ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Girl of His Dreams more books like this by Donna Leon add to wishlist Donna Leon's "Commissario Guido Brunetti" mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative portraits of Venetian life. In her novels, food, family, art, history, and local politics play as central a role as an unsolved crime. In "The Girl of His Dreams" when a friend of Brunetti's brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	A sea of troubles more books like this by Donna Leon add to wishlist The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the island's close-knit community, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia. When the Vice-Questore's secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, where ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $7.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Dead Lagoon: An Aurelio Zen Mystery more books like this by Michael Dibdin add to wishlist Police detective Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice in search of a missing American millionaire. But dead bodies keep materializing--including a crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's "black wells" and a skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Rick Steves' Venice more books like this by Rick Steves add to wishlist Home to magnificent art, exotic palaces, sparkling canals and steeped in mystery, join Rick Steves on a trip to Venice. Uncover the many layers of history and art entwined in St. Mark's Basilica, find the city's best pensione, take in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, travel like a local on a private water taxi, and more. With Rick Steves' Venice ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	In the Company of the Courtesan more books like this by Sarah Dunant add to wishlist Set in Renaissance Italy, this follow-up to Dunant's "The Birth of Venus" recounts the fantastic escapades of Bucino Teodoldo, a wily dwarf, and his mistress, celebrated courtesan Fiammetta Bianchini, who escape to Venice where intrigue awaits. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Invisible Cities more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist This novel takes the form of a series of conversations between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, in which the traveler recounts for the emperor fabulous tales of cities he has known--cities that are imaginary, exotic, and haunting in their strangeness. As the two men talk, the boundaries between reality and illusion become less clear, until they ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $6.41! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire more books like this by Garry Wills add to wishlist Venice during the Renaissance was a center of trade and naval power that was fueled by its own idiosyncratic approaches to rule and religion. Through a study of major works of art from the period, historian Wills examines the life of Venice in its historical setting; and he uses historical knowledge to inform his appreciation of art history. A New ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
21 view cover	Death in a Strange Country more books like this by Donna Leon add to wishlist The second novel to feature Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.68! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Death in Venice more books like this by Thomas Mann add to wishlist In DEATH IN VENICE, an elderly, famous, and wealthy writer named Aschenbach goes on vacation. He becomes fascinated with Tadzio, a young teenager who is staying with his family at Aschenbach's hotel. As his obsession grows, and despite warnings that a plague is threatening Venice, Aschenbach remains at the hotel hoping to make a connection with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Number Our Days more books like this by Barbara Myerhoff add to wishlist Anthropologist Myerhoff's penetrating exploration of the aging process is brilliant sociology--as well as living history--that tells readers about the importance of ritual, the agonies of aging, and the indomitable human spirit. "(The book) shines with the luminous wit of old age".--Robert Bly. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Suffer the Little Children more books like this by Donna Leon add to wishlist When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been fractured in a brutal attack, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away his eighteen-month old son. What can have motivated ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Book of Unholy Mischief more books like this by Elle Newmark add to wishlist Newmark's transcendent debut follows a penniless orphan in Renaissance Venice as he is swept up form the streets and into a world of immeasurable passion and power on a journey that leads not only to betrayal and mystery, but also to love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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