ARRIGONI E L'OMICIDIO DA VIA VITRUVIO

It's a mystery à la Maigret, set in Milan in the 50's. The atmosphere is pleasantly vintage. After the extraordinary success of the first four novels, Commissario Mario Arrigoni is back, with the places and almost forgotten, still magical atmosphere of the 50s, perfectly described by Dario Crapanzano, one of the most original voices of the noir genre.

Milan, March 1953: Flavio Villareale, fifty, actor, director and owner of the Imperial Theatre is found dead in his apartment in via Vitruvio, a short walk from the theater. Umberto Calcaterra, partner of Flavio and administrator of the theater, found the corpse. The medical examiner discovers the unmistakable signs of a death by suffocation: Flavio Villareale was killed.

Commissario Arrigoni is summoned to the crime scene on the way back from the celebrationof the marriage of his deputy, Salvatore Mastrantonio. As Mastrantonio goes to the honeymoon, Arrigoni is assisted by the brilliant inspector Giovine. The interrogations highlight the personality of the victim, a brilliant artist, yet a bad person: Flavio Villareale was always horny and devoted to sadomaschistic practies; he did not hesitate to exploit his charm and his position to seduce every beautiful woman he met.
And this is only the beginning. Villareale's past is also full of shadows: the victim was a devoted to Mussolini, and rumors say he had denounced opponents of the Fascist regime.
To solve the mystery, Arrigoni has to face young and beautiful actresses, octogenarion prompters and Mussolini's supporters...

Dario Crapanzano was born in Milan, he graduated in Law but also graduated from the Accademia di Arte Drammatica. He worked successfully in advertising. In 2011, aged seventy, Crapanzano debuted with his first novel Il giallo di via Tadino. He then published three more novels featuring Commisario Mario Arrigoni and is now considered a master of the noir genre.