The Hotel of the Three Roses

Inspector De Vincenzi #2

Augusto De Angelis, Jill Foulston

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English

Pushkin Press
27 April 2016

Fiction & Literature; Classic crime

The shady Hotel of the Three Roses is home to an assortment of drunks and degenerates. Inspector De Vincenzi receives an anonymous letter, warning him of an imminent outrage at the guest house, and shortly after a macabre discovery is made - a body is found hanging in the hotel's stairwell. As De Vincenzi investigates, more deaths follow, until he finally uncovers a gothic and grotesque story linking the Three Rose's unhappy residents to each other. This intensely dramatic mystery from the father of the Italian crime novel, Augusto de Angelis, features his most famous creation - Inspector De Vincenzi.

By: Augusto De Angelis
Translated by: Jill Foulston
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9781782271710
ISBN 10: 1782271716
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 27 April 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Augusto De Angelis (1888-1944) was an Italian novelist and journalist, most famous for his series of detective novels featuring Commissario Carlo De Vincenzi. His cultured protagonist was enormously popular in Italy, but the Fascist government of the time considered him an enemy, and during the Second World War he was imprisoned by the authorities. Shortly after his release he was beaten up by a Fascist activist and died from his injuries.

Reviews for The Hotel of the Three Roses: Inspector De Vincenzi #2

As humane as Maigret, as romantic as Marlowe, as intellectual as Philo Vance, yet stubbornly Italian Oreste Del Buono De Vincenzi, is an investigator who doesn't stop at the material evidence, but digs with uncommon passion in the psyche of his characters, and the atmosphere in which they live and operate... a rare delight Corriere Della Sera