Little Italy Dying is one of twelve novels (not all published in Italy) yellow Gaslight Mystery Series by Victoria Thompson created and set in New York at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
E 'at the time, as the name suggests the series, in which the streets were still lit by gas lights and even when one of the four commanders of the Police was Theodore Roosevelt, future president of the USA. Starring
investigations are veteran sergeant Frank Malloy and Sarah Brandt, midwife of those brave tumultuous years that, between birth and the other, she becomes involved in killings and disappearances. In Italy
investigations of this unusual duo are published in the historical series of the Yellow Mondadori that Die in Little Italy has come to No 3018 ( Murder in Little Italy, the eighth of the Gaslight Mystery series according to American History), where Sarah is struggling with the death of a young mother married Irish Italian Antonio Ruocco.
The case, like all previous, intricate but this time make it more complex we shall also make the delicate balance between the Italian and Irish communities as well as the inevitable shadow (ahinoi. ..) of the Mafia, specifically the mysterious criminal organization known as the Black Hand.
The author has had a dozen titles of setting nineteenth century, and here combines his experience in the historical novel that has been the fascination for the city of New York, which began when, in recent times, one of his daughters had enrolled in the Tisch School of the Arts .
This love for the city and its past reflected in more than a moment "... he immediately took a hansom," the two-wheeled carriage with the coachman who drove perched on the back, but now had to make several economies to provide for his new family. " The notations vintage and characterization of the Italian characters, thanks to the successful writer of real relationships, enrich a narrative elegant, full of dialogue and almost modest life: "emerged after a while ... 'with a rather crumpled copy of another tabloid newspaper in your hands ... there was also a drawing of a girl with a voluptuous body, sprawled on the bed collapsed, wearing only a short nightdress .
A style that brings to mind the definition of "yellow lady" that sometimes the critics throw at stake when dealing with authors like Agatha Christie (with her "Miss Marple") or Patricia Wentworth (with its " Miss Silver "). The mysteries of
Thompson are disengaged but pleasant reading, a kind of antidote to the explicit descriptions pulp-splatter-gore thriller that characterize many dell'attuale produzione. Ogni tanto tra una minuziosa descrizione autoptica e secchi di sangue ci sta bene anche leggere di una vittima "scompostamente accasciata sul letto" .
Morire a Little Italy , Victoria Thompson, Giallo Mondadori n. 3018, 2010
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