The Mystery Novels of L.F. VerĂ­ssimo

Crimes from pulp fiction books reenacted by a real murderer. A locked-room mystery disrupting a conference about Edgar Allan Poe. Members of a gastronomy club being killed one by one right after having their favorite dishes. These are just a few of the plots from L.F. VerĂ­ssimo’s novels. But what really makes them interesting to me are their narrative structures and the cultural artifacts that fuel them.

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