"The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1875−1955) is one of the premier works of fiction of the...
The Plague-Spreader’s Tale
Bufalino's first novel, written in 1950 but not published until 1981 after encouragement from...
The Case of the General’s Thumb
By the author of Death and the Penguin, this 1999 novel opens in Kiev with the puzzling death of a...
Judges
Three novellas from Italy's premier crime authors. A judge finds conspiracy and cannoli in...
The Hotel Majestic
When the strangled body of Mrs Clark, the wife of a wealthy American industrialist, is found in...
Germinal
Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a...
The Crocodile
Transferred to Naples after a tangle with the Sicilian Mafia, Detective Inspector Giuseppe...
If this is a man
"With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built,...
Rudin
"The only people who remain misunderstood are those who either do not know what they want or are...
The Seville Communion
Murderous goings-on in a tiny church draw the Vatican into the dark heart of Seville. A hacker...