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Dead Lagoon 
1st edition coverAuthor(s) Michael Dibdin Country United Kingdom Language English Series Aurelio Zen series, #4 Genre(s) Crime, Mystery novel Publisher Faber and Faber Publication date April 18, 1994 Media type Print (Hardback, Paperback) Pages 256pp (hardback) 354pp (paperback) ISBN 0571170501 OCLC Number 30159112 Preceded by Cabal Followed by Cosi Fan Tutti Dead Lagoon is a novel by Michael Dibdin, and is the fourth entry in the popular Aurelio Zen series.
Moonlighting, Zen engineers a posting to his home town of Venice on a pretext in order to investigate the disappearance of an American millionaire on behalf of his American ex girlfriend. He needs the extra money to set up home with his new girlfriend with room for his aged mother.
His investigations lead him into conflict with a charismatic local rising politician and a childhood friend before he discovers a shocking truth about his supposed dead father. Although he actually does get to the bottom of both his overt and covert enquiries, he leaves Venice in frustration and with childhood illusions shattered.
Novels by Michael Dibdin Aurelio Zen series Ratking (1988) • Vendetta (1990) • Cabal (1992) • Dead Lagoon (1994) • Cosi Fan Tutti (1996) • A Long Finish (1998) • Blood Rain (1999) • And Then You Die (2002) • Medusa (2003) • Back to Bologna (2005) • End Games (2007) • Television series (2011)Other novels The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) • A Rich Full Death (1986) • The Tryst (1989) • Dirty Tricks (1991) • The Dying of the Light (1993) • Dark Spectre (1995) • Thanksgiving (2000)Categories:- 1994 novels
- Novels by Michael Dibdin
- Novels set in Venice
- Crime novel stubs
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