Costa and Peroni find themselves embroiled in a clandestine and dangerous investigation into the shadowy world that lies beneath Venices sparkling fa
something unknown
was first published by his good friend and long-time correspondent Henry Miller as the first title in the short-lived "Villa Seurat" imprint of the Paris-based Obelisk Press
news reaches the army that Galba has been killed in a coup
Where there is a crime there must be a finding
Kingdom Of Shadows Sara Taylor Costa and Peroni find themselvesParis, 1938. Nicholas Morath, former Hungarian cavalry officer, returns home to his young mistress in the 7th arrondissement. He's been in Vienna where, amid the mobs screaming for Hitler, he's done a quiet favour for his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi. Polanyi is a diplomat and, desperate to stop his country's drift into alliance with Nazi Germany, he trades in conspiracy with SS renegades, Abwehr officers, British spies and NKVD defectors, leading