The Hotel of the Three Roses

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The shady Hotel of the Three Roses is home to an assortment of drunks and degenerates. Inspector De Vincenzi receives an anonymous letter, warning him of an imminent outrage at the guest house, and shortly after a macabre discovery is made--a body is found hanging in the hotel's stairwell. As De Vincenzi investigates, more deaths follow, until he finally uncovers a gothic and grotesque story linking the Three Rose's unhappy residents to each other.This intensely dramatic mystery from the father of the Italian crime novel, Augusto de Angelis, features his most famous creation - Inspector De Vincenzi.

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A gripping tale of murder and revenge which, like all good detective novels, keeps us rapt for the duration of the case and leaves us wanting more... Both a fiendish locked-door mystery and a whodunnit with its fair share of red herrings, dark secrets and dastardly motives Herald You won't want to put this clever and smoothly written novel down Crime Review This is a book I would strongly recommend to readers of both translated crime and Golden Age detective fiction Crossexaminingcrime As humane as Maigret, as romantic as Marlowe, as intellectual as Philo Vance, yet stubbornly Italian Oreste Del Buono De Vincenzi, is an investigator who doesn't stop at the material evidence, but digs with uncommon passion in the psyche of his characters, and the atmosphere in which they live and operate... a rare delight Corriere Della Sera A decent plot, satisfactorily resolved Col's Criminal Library

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Augusto De Angelis (1888-1944) was an Italian novelist and journalist, most famous for his series of detective novels featuring Commissario Carlo De Vincenzi. His cultured protagonist was enormously popular in Italy, but the Fascist government of the time considered him an enemy, and during the Second World War he was imprisoned by the authorities. Shortly after his release he was beaten up by a Fascist activist and died from his injuries.