Friends in High Places.
by Leon, Donna
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Alfriston, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
Donna Leon's latest Commissario Brunetti novel sees her Venetian dete ctive drawn into an underworld of drugs and loan sharking, in her finest exploration of both her city and her character yet.When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years earlier, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant government department. But when the bureaucrat rings Brunetti at work, clearly scared, and is then found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is obviously going on that has implications greater than the fate of Brunetti's apartment ...
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Much Ado Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28029
- Title
- Friends in High Places.
- Author
- Leon, Donna
- Format/Binding
- Hardback.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann, London. 2000. First edition.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction and Literature;
Terms of Sale
Much Ado Books
Oversize or multi-volume sets may cost more - prices upon request. Overseas shipping available - prices will depend on book, destination & speed. Books not found to be as described may be returned within 7 days for full refund, including shipping costs.
About the Seller
Much Ado Books
About Much Ado Books
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...