Introducing Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Florentine Carabinieri, a Sicilian stationed far from home. He wants to go south for Christmas to spend the holiday with his family, but he is laid up with the 'flu. At this awkward moment, the death of a retired Englishman is reported. Who has shot Mr Langley-Smythe in the back? And why has Scotland Yard felt it appropriate to send two detectives, one of whom speaks no Italian, to 'help' the marshal and his colleagues with their enquiries? Most importantly for the marshal, ever the Italian, will he be able to solve the crime sufficiently quickly for him to be able to join his family over the holiday season?
- ISBN10 0006167764
- ISBN13 9780006167761
- Publish Date 11 July 1991 (first published 7 December 1981)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 May 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Collins Crime
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk