But soon he opens up with his financial troubles, revealing that he needs "half a million" - it seems that he owes this sum to someone, and that it is due that very day. He claims he's been walking around since and that his wandering had brought him to the station to see the inspector. Aurigi had watched the opera in the box belonging to Count Marchionni and his family Marchionni is Aurigi's future father-in-law, as he is engaged to his daughter Maria Giovanna. After a while de Vincenzi settles in to read his book, and while inwardly musing about why he's a cop and why he'd become the Commissioner for Public Saftety, he is joined some time later, about 1:30 a.m., by his friend and former classmate Gianetto Aurigi, who has just come in after a night at La Scala seeing Verdi's Aida. The opening scene captures two men "moving across the piazza," as "ghostlike shadows." As it turns out, one of these men is the main character Inspector Carlo de Vincenzi, who is heading into the station just after midnight. This is definitely the case in The Murdered Banker, where a "bituminous lake of fog" has settled on Milan, making it nearly impossible to see anything.
The opening scene captures two men "moving across the piazza," as "ghostlike shadows." As it turns out, one of these somewhere around 3.6 or 3.7 stars for me.Īny time a mystery novel opens in the fog, I do a little happy dance since I know that what's coming is going to be hazy, murky, and a bit of a challenge in terms of seeing things clearly. Any time a mystery novel opens in the fog, I do a little happy dance since I know that what's coming is going to be hazy, murky, and a bit of a challenge in terms of seeing things clearly. Somewhere around 3.6 or 3.7 stars for me.
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