Description September 1963.
Winner of the Anthony award for Best Paperback Original and the Macavity Award for Best Historical Novel (Sue Feder Memorial), he has also been a finalist for the Edgar(R), Barry, and Lefty Awards..
Ziskin is the author of the Ellie Stone mysteries.
About the Author James W. "Morto." As long-buried secrets rise to the surface, Ellie must figure out if one or more of her newfound friends is capable of murder.
But the late summer bacchanalia takes a menacing Turn when the man who organized the symposium is fished out of the Arno.
Making the best of their confinement, the men and women spin tales, gorge themselves on fine Tuscan food and wine, and enjoy the delicious fruit of transient love.
A suspected rubella outbreak leaves the ten friends quarantined in the bucolic setting with little to do but tell stories to entertain themselves.
In Italy for a symposium honoring her late father\'s academic work, "girl reporter" Ellie Stone is invited to spend a weekend outside Florence with some of the scholars attending the event.
Description September 1963
