Venetian Vespers

Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. 1899. As the new century approaches, English hack writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat, and looks forward to the financial freedom this will afford him. But in the midst of a mysterious rift between Laura and her father, just before the patriarch''s death, Evelyn''s plans of a substantial inheritance are thrown into doubt. As the unhappy newlyweds travel to Venice for New Year at Palazzo Dioscuri - the ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarig - a series of seemingly otherworldly occurrences exacerbate Evelyn''s already frayed nerves: is it just the sea mist blanketing the floating city or is he losing his mind?

Product details

• Authors: John Banville
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 25.09.2025
• EAN: 9780571386642
• ISBN: 978-0-571-38664-2
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, Gothic, FICTION / Gothic, Ghosts & poltergeists, Historical crime and mysteries, Ghosts and poltergeists