Andrea Di Robilant: Lucia in the Age of Napoleon [2007] paperback ZMUSI Elie Khoury

Elie Khoury

only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows

Twenty-five years after the iconic

Now she must leave them

may have something to answer for

Andrea Di Robilant: Lucia in the Age of Napoleon [2007] paperback ZMUSI Elie KhouryIn 1797, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen year old daughter of a Venetian statesman, was married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families of the once glorious maritime Republic. They were a golden couple in Venice's twilight years. But Lucia's life was suddenly transformed when the thousand year old Serenissima collapsed under the blows of young Bonaparte in 1797. Whether as a dazzling young hostess in Habsburg