Ratking (Signed) "Rat King"
by DIBDIN, Michael
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 055305337X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553053371
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1989. Signed by the late author on a bookplate tipped in between the front free endpaper and the half-title page. This is the first U.S. edition of the first Aurelio Zen Mystery (recently shown on Masterpiece Mystery Theatre). Winner of the U.K. Golden Dagger Award in the year of publication. 266 pp. Becoming a bit hard to find in collectible condition. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Synopsis
Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. But from the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over an explosive kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families.
Reviews
On Aug 17 2011, Daniel_Baumgartner said:
This book was complicated but fun, a sort of Borgia family saga, but I had a problem in the beginning trying to keep Italian names straight, like the spaghetti aisle at the grocery store, so I made a list of all parties! The Aurelio Zen series has been produced for PBS and Ratking and one other book in the series were liberally cribbed and totally plot changed. Once I got over the idea that the TV production bore little resemblance to the book, I enjoyed it for what it was. I hear Michael Dibdin is not loved in Italy his sometimes scathing portrayals of Italian political and police life, and justly so. But that isn't his fault!
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0193626
- Title
- Ratking (Signed) "Rat King"
- Author
- DIBDIN, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 055305337X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553053371
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- ITALY FICTION ZEN AURELIO FICTITIOUS CHARACTER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Mystery; Addbooks98;
Terms of Sale
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