- Cosi Fan Tutti
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Cosi Fan Tutti 
1st editionAuthor(s) Michael Dibdin Country United Kingdom Language English Series Aurelio Zen series, #5 Genre(s) Crime, Mystery novel Publisher Faber and Faber Publication date January 1, 1997 Media type Print (Hardback, Paperback) Pages 332pp (hardback) 247pp (paperback) ISBN 0571179207 OCLC Number 36046751 Dewey Decimal 823/.914 21 LC Classification PR6054.I26 C67 1996 Preceded by Dead Lagoon Followed by A Long Finish For the Mozart opera, see Così fan tutte.Cosi Fan Tutti is a novel by Michael Dibdin, and is the fifth entry in the popular Aurelio Zen series.
Under a cloud again, Zen thinks he has found himself a backwater sinecure in Naples, where he can coast towards retirement. He is prepared to tolerate all manner of scams in return for a quiet life with pastries and a cappucino on his desk every morning, not the least of which is a brothel on the top floor of the police station of which he is nominally in command. But corrupt politicians, shady business men and eminent mafiosi are disappearing off the streets at an alarming rate and although Zen's commitment to his work is at an all-time low, he finds himself reluctantly embroiled. Given the title, it should come as no surprise to learn that one strand of the plot is a riff on the title of the almost eponymous opera: Così fan tutte. In addition, the chapter titles are all taken from the titles of sections of the opera libretto.
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:- 1996 novels
- Novels by Michael Dibdin
- Novels set in Italy
- Crime novel stubs
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