DEAD MAN IN NAPLES
DEAD MAN IN NAPLES Naples, 1913. Into that world is sent a minor British consular official, Scampion, banished from Florence because he has allowed himself to be caught up in the mad social whirl…
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DEAD MAN IN NAPLES
Naples, 1913. Into that world is sent a minor British consular official, Scampion, banished from Florence because he has allowed himself to be caught up in the mad social whirl surrounding D'Annunzio, the famous Italian poet, Nationalist and revolutionary.Scampion brings with him from Florence the new craze that is sweeping Italy: bicycling. Sun-baked, blue-skied, and with its amazing bay, one of the most beautiful spots in Italy - but also, one of the most backward.
Could Scampion's murder have something to do with the racing? And one day as he walks home after a road race that he has been organising, he is stabbed to death.Nothing extraordinary about that in Naples - it happens all the time - but his wallet was not taken, a fact that is remarkable. Bicycling may seem like a harmless pursuit but in Italy passions run high and Neopolitans, too, are great gamblers; they