A Private Venus

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A Private Venus (Italian : Venere privata) is a 1966 detective novel by the Italian writer Giorgio Scerbanenco. It tells the story of how the former doctor Duca Lamberti is assigned to treat the alcoholic son of a millionaire, and begins to unveil the secrets surrounding the death of a young woman in the affluent world of Milan. It was the first in a series of four novels about Dr. Duca Lamberti. An English translation by Howard Curtis was published in 2012. [1]

Contents

The book was the basis for the 1970 film Safety Catch directed by Yves Boisset. [2]

Reception

Kirkus Reviews wrote in 2014 that "the first volume in Scerbanenco’s Milano Quartet is a blast from the past, a sleek, stripped-down reminder of the fast, brutal days of Continental noir". [3]

References

  1. ↑ A private Venus. OCLC   776774328.
  2. ↑ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 410. ISBN   1-85739-229-9.
  3. ↑ "A Private Venus". Kirkus Reviews . 2014-03-05. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
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