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Informationen zum Autor Jason Goodwin is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Investigator Yashim series. The first five books- The Janissary Tree! The Snake Stone! The Bellini Card! An Evil Eye and The Baklava Club -have been published to international acclaim! alongside Yashim Cooks Istanbul! a cookbook of Ottoman Turkish recipes inspired by the series. Goodwin studied Byzantine history at Cambridge and is the author of Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire ! among other award-winning nonfiction. He lives with his wife and children in England. Vorwort The Bellini Card by Jason Goodwin: the Ottoman Detective may be a eunuch, but he's not missing anything. . . Zusammenfassung The third book in Jason Goodwin's celebrated series takes Yashim from the winding alleyways of Istanbul to the decaying grandeur of Venice. Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, he enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals, and Palewski starts to mingle with Venetian dealers - self-made men, faded aristocrats and the hedonistic Contessa. But when two bodies turn up in the canal, he realises that art in Venice is a deadly business. And meanwhile, what has happened to Yashim? The Bellini Card is a thrilling adventure in which a quest for a lost painting turns into dangerous game of cat and mouse that threatens to destroy the Ottoman throne and overturn the balance of power in Europe.
