Ruth Russell, an astronomer working at the Maurice Frazer Observatory, is enjoying herself in Rome—that is, until her lover, Charles Digham, a fashion photographer and writer of obituary verses, has his camera stolen. The thief ends up as a headless corpse in the zoo park tolleta. Johnson Johnson, enigmatic portrait painter, spy, and sleuth, is in Rome to paint a portrait of the pope, and is therefore on hand to investigate in one of Dunnett's usual thrilling and convoluted plots that grips the reader from cover to cover. There is something far more deadly at stake than just the secrets of a couture house.
Language
English
Pages
316
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 1973
ISBN 13
9780755119165
Roman Nights: Dolly and the Starry Bird ; Murder In Focus
Ruth Russell, an astronomer working at the Maurice Frazer Observatory, is enjoying herself in Rome—that is, until her lover, Charles Digham, a fashion photographer and writer of obituary verses, has his camera stolen. The thief ends up as a headless corpse in the zoo park tolleta. Johnson Johnson, enigmatic portrait painter, spy, and sleuth, is in Rome to paint a portrait of the pope, and is therefore on hand to investigate in one of Dunnett's usual thrilling and convoluted plots that grips the reader from cover to cover. There is something far more deadly at stake than just the secrets of a couture house.