{"product_id":"9781939663146","title":"Murder Most Serene","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Gabrielle Wittkop\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but corrupt city-state and its equally extravagant and corrupt inhabitants. Redolent of darkness, death, poison and transgression, it is also an over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek Venetian romp. Rich in historical detail and bursting with bejeweled putrescence, Gabrielle Wittkop's chilling memento mori eschews the murder mystery in which it is garbed for a scintillating depiction of physical, moral, societal and institutional corruption, in which the author plays the role of puppeteer--\"present, masked as convention dictates, while in a Venice on the brink of downfall, women gorged with venom burst like wineskins.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781939663146. Wakefield Press. pb. .\u003cbr\u003eavailable\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40618058678429,"sku":"9781939663146","price":27.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/1439\/9645\/files\/9781939663146.jpg?v=1784275626","url":"https:\/\/wholesale.manic.com.au\/products\/9781939663146","provider":"Books at Manic Wholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}