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Crown of Beaks

Erik Martiny

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Description:A crucified body wrapped like a mummy in packaging tape is found hanging from a wire attached to the roofline of both the Israeli and American pavilions on the opening day of the Venice Biennale. Initially, however, everyone assumes the figure is an example of hyperrealist sculpture. It isn’t until the third day when the rotting head attracts several hungry and overly aggressive seagulls, that officials realize they have a murder on their hands. To make matters worse, the victim is none other than the famous contemporary Italian artist, Marcello Mercato.Detective Inspector Paola Contini of Venice and Stieg Molloy of Interpol join forces to investigate a case that takes them far beyond the borders of Italy, and far beyond the confines of the artworld. The two detectives soon find themselves chasing down all sorts of bizarre clues, a severed hand in a box of chocolates, a farm overrun with demon-like animals bent on destruction, Satanic cultists, a mysterious block of ice that appears to contain the body of yet another victim, a mad scientist experimenting on humans, a secret lair, strange, robotic creatures, and all of it part of some hidden master plan to destroy the world as we know it, a plan that our detectives must uncover or, well, only God (and perhaps the author) knows what will happen next. So as you might have guessed by now, Crown of Beaks is much more than a detective novel. Yes it recreates the atmospheres of southern European and Nordic noir, and so it offers the pleasure of standard detective fiction. But it is also a postmodernist riff on the detective novel genre, which means it offers alternative viewpoints about what is happening with detectives Contini and Molloy and why. Crown of Beaks is both detective novel and metafiction and will leave both crime novel enthusiasts and genre-sceptics engrossed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Crown of Beaks. To get started finding Crown of Beaks, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 458

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: River Boat Books

Release: —

ISBN: 173325658X

Description: A crucified body wrapped like a mummy in packaging tape is found hanging from a wire attached to the roofline of both the Israeli and American pavilions on the opening day of the Venice Biennale. Initially, however, everyone assumes the figure is an example of hyperrealist sculpture. It isn’t until the third day when the rotting head attracts several hungry and overly aggressive seagulls, that officials realize they have a murder on their hands. To make matters worse, the victim is none other than the famous contemporary Italian artist, Marcello Mercato.Detective Inspector Paola Contini of Venice and Stieg Molloy of Interpol join forces to investigate a case that takes them far beyond the borders of Italy, and far beyond the confines of the artworld. The two detectives soon find themselves chasing down all sorts of bizarre clues, a severed hand in a box of chocolates, a farm overrun with demon-like animals bent on destruction, Satanic cultists, a mysterious block of ice that appears to contain the body of yet another victim, a mad scientist experimenting on humans, a secret lair, strange, robotic creatures, and all of it part of some hidden master plan to destroy the world as we know it, a plan that our detectives must uncover or, well, only God (and perhaps the author) knows what will happen next. So as you might have guessed by now, Crown of Beaks is much more than a detective novel. Yes it recreates the atmospheres of southern European and Nordic noir, and so it offers the pleasure of standard detective fiction. But it is also a postmodernist riff on the detective novel genre, which means it offers alternative viewpoints about what is happening with detectives Contini and Molloy and why. Crown of Beaks is both detective novel and metafiction and will leave both crime novel enthusiasts and genre-sceptics engrossed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Crown of Beaks. To get started finding Crown of Beaks, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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