Venetia Author Forename:Roberto Chesterton and nine other writers

Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago

perhaps legends

The Big Sleep

learning and art

whose family loyalty is matched only by his patriotic fervour

Venetia Author Forename:Roberto Chesterton and nine other writersIn the 12th century AD, Venice is little more than an agglomeration of small islands: the magnificent city is yet to be born. Here, in this northern backwater, a group of artisans have proven themselves to be unrivalled in an art form that produces works of such astounding beauty that many consider it mystical in nature and think its practitioners possessed of otherworldly gifts: glassmaking. Presciently aware of the power they wield and the role they