Mort entre línies

One evening Commissioner Brunetti receives a desperate call from the director of a Venetian library. Several old books of great value have appeared with some pages cut out and others have disappeared. There is one suspect: the man who last consulted the books, an alleged professor at the University of Kansas. Soon, however, Brunetti changes the purpose of the research and focuses on regular library readers, such as Tertullian, a kind and polite man who has been reading religious treatises for three years, or the intelligent countess. Albani-Morosini, a generous patron of Sicilian origin who belongs to the high Venetian society. Although, if you look closely, who might be interested in books? Only people as strange as librarians or someone with Brunetti's fine sensibilities would take the time to unravel the entanglement. Suddenly, however, when a murder takes place, the case takes on a much more sinister aspect and the commissioner has to delve into the bowels of the dark world of the black market for old books. Donna Leon has been inspired by a real case to write Death between the lines: the disappearance of thousands of old books from the Neapolitan library of Girolamini, one of the biggest scandals in history regarding book theft.