by Donna Leon · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432228148
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«Muerte en La Fenice» is the crime novel by Donna Leon, published by Seix Barral in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Orchestra conductor Helmut Wellauer dies poisoned during a performance of La Traviata at the La Fenice theatre. Commissario Guido Brunetti, familiar with Venice's labyrinthine criminality, finds that the musician had numerous enemies. Brunetti delves into the opera world and the secrets of Venice's high society to identify the killer.
This novel, the first instalment in the Commissario Brunetti series, was published in 1996 and won the Suntory Prize for best mystery novel in Japan. It belongs to the Biblioteca Formentor collection.
For readers of classic crime fiction and stories set in Venice, as well as for those starting the Commissario Brunetti series.
Donna Leon is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy, featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti. The novels are written in English and have been translated into many foreign languages, although – at Leon's request – not into Italian, as she formerly lived there, still visits monthly, and prefers not to have recognition in the country.
