Black Bridge

Urbino McIntyre Mystery #4

by Edward Sklepowich

Reluctantly investigating a series of threats made against the charismatic Barone Casarotto-Re as a means of fulfilling a personal favor, Urbino Macintyre is challenged to remain unbiased when the barone becomes the major suspect in a murder

Genres: Mystery

223 pages, Hardcover

First published December 12, 1991

About the author

EDWARD SKLEPOWICH has been an expatriate American for many years. He has been a Fullbright scholar of American literature in Egypt, Algeria, and Tunisia. He divides his time between Tunisia, where he is a university lecturer, Venice, New York, and a former Phoenician town on the Tunisian Mediterranean called Sousse. His deep feeling for Venice is one expression of his maternal Italian heritage.
Interview with Edward Sklepowich

Series:
* Urbino McIntyre Mystery

Reviews

[Barbara Wylie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the fourth in a series of mysteries set in Venice, Italy. Like all his books, the mysteries combines facts and fiction. In this book, a restaurant, Antica Locanda Montin is mentioned as a favorite of the main characters. I ate there last summer, which personalizes the story for me. I find myself googling references to people he mentions and I'm constantly learning.

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

reread after a long time... I still love the concept and of course, the place... but reading again while sitting in my sala IN VENICE is quite different than wishing I was 'there'... interesting

[Monica · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Reluctantly investigating a series of threats made against the charismatic Barone Casarotto-Re as a means of fulfilling a personal favor, Urbino Macintyre is challenged to remain unbiased when the barone becomes the major suspect in a murder."

Another solid book in the Urbino Macintyre and Contessa series. Sklepowich's books are always filled with a lot of information about Venetian history and architecture. As mentioned in reviews of the previous three Sklepowich books, i'm always looking up something that has to do with Venice. This mystery actually had me hanging until the end pages...i was wrong about who i thought "did it".

In past books i'm not sure i've been so fond of the Contessa...i find her a pompous, vain, indulging character. And the ending of this book has me alerted to Sklepowich perhaps going in direction with the two main characters that i'm not, not going to like. Ah well.

[Writerlibrarian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fourth in his series of Venice mysteries in this one we see that Urbino and the Comtessa's friendship is threated by a new love for the Comtessa. But this new man isn't really all that he seems. Death threats, murders and a long ago wrong drive the plot and emotions run high. Venice is still the primary character and it's just wonderful to "see" it thru Urbino's eyes. I like the feel and the ambiance that Skelpowich puts in his novel. I can almost taste the fog. Which is a good thing.