by Daphne du Maurier · Virago Press Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844080700
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«The Flight of the Falcon» is the mystery and suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier, published by Virago Press in 2005 in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Armino Fabbio, a young guide in Rome, becomes involved in the murder of an elderly woman who was a servant to his family in Ruffano. Returning to his town, Armino recalls his brother Aldo, fallen in the war, and Duke Claudio, The Falcon, who terrorised the city five hundred years earlier. The parallels between past and present point to hidden secrets.
This edition belongs to the Virago Modern Classics collection (volume 365), includes an introduction by Amanda Craig, and the work was originally published in 1965.
It is a work for readers of modern classics with a gothic atmosphere, Italian setting, and crossing of eras.
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather George du Maurier was a writer and cartoonist. Du Maurier spent much of her life in Cornwall, where most of her works are set. As her fame increased, she became more reclusive.
