That Awful Mess On The Via Merulana - Carlo Emilio Gadda Translator: Annie McDermott

Translator: Annie McDermott

Translator: Ann Wright

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That Awful Mess On The Via Merulana - Carlo Emilio Gadda Translator: Annie McDermottIn a large apartment house in central Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate, melancholy Detective Ciccio, a secret admirer of the murdered woman and a friend of her husband's, discovers that almost everyone in the apartment building is somehow