by John Mortimer · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432072147
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«Alquiler de verano» is the mystery and humour novel by John Mortimer, published by Planeta in paperback (340 pages, in Spanish).
A forty-year-old Londoner, fond of detective fiction and art, rents a villa in Tuscany for her August holidays. When the water disappears and a corpse turns up in the empty pool, Molly suspects foul play. Her investigation leads her to Mondano, to the mysterious S. Kettering and to a painting by Piero della Francesca.
Translation by Enric Tremps of the English original «Summer's Lease». Belongs to Planeta's Narrativa Collection (no. 114).
For readers of mystery novels with humour and an Italian setting, especially those drawn to the role of Renaissance art in the plot.
Sir John Clifford Mortimer was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. He is best known for short stories about a barrister named Horace Rumpole, adapted from episodes of the TV series Rumpole of the Bailey also written by Mortimer.
