Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of **Angels and Insects**). In **Up at the Villa**, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions
The Marshal at the Villa Torrini
โ Scribed by Magdalen Nabb
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A prominent writer is found dead in the Villa Torrini outside of Florence without any marks of physical harm on her. Her husband, who was heavily intoxicated in the next room, is exhibiting signs of guilt, but the carabinieri are having trouble finding concrete evidence against him. Marshal Guarnaccia, who is already struggling with a strict diet and the intricacies of a new legal system, has little faith in his own ability to solve the case, but his intuition turns out to be invaluable.
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