Death at La Fenice

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  • But after they found the answer to that question, their paths parted, the doctor going backward in time to find the physical cause, and he going forward to find the person responsible. (Location 183)
    • Note: rly
  • Opera singers, Brunetti found himself thinking, then, repeating the thought, opera singers. (Location 311)
    • Note: ?:)/
  • At the bottom, the portiere, seeing Miotti’s uniform, reached under the counter at which he sat and pushed the button that released the turnstile blocking the exit of the theatre. He gestured that all they had to do was push. Knowing that Miotti would already have questioned the man about who had come in and out of the theatre that night, Brunetti didn’t bother to ask him any questions but passed (Location 497)
    • Note: this detail had better be important
  • Santore lowered himself into his chair, this time holding the glass with one hand cupped under (Location 572)
    • Note: no, pathological detail
  • They allowed the silence to expand between them (Location 606)
    • Note: interview psyche good
  • where slept the homeless and the mad. (Location 664)
    • Note: ?
  • ‘OK,’ she said, using one of the Americanisms towards which her vocabulary was prone. ‘I say it was the wife.’ Though he (Location 706)
    • Note: this needs to be settled with emotional closure.
  • gestures or try in any way to highlight the sharp Anglo-Saxon beauty of her face. He (Location 1081)
    • Note: again !
  • surprise, he amended, ‘No, not in the palazzo. In Venice. But she’s hardly in a state (Location 1795)
    • Note: shit gossip needs more marple
  • and a fading movie star of the fifties couldn’t redeem it in the popular consciousness as a sinister, backward place (Location 2082)
    • Note: redeem it in as?
  • ‘There was one thing, hardly worth mentioning.’ (Location 2582)
    • Note: oof again
  • Besides, you don’t walk across the city to get information if you can use the phone to get it for you.’ (Location 2805)
    • Note: q nice - he does
  • ‘Pass the bred, Raffi.’ (Location 2872)
  • One of them had died because of Wellauer, and another had perhaps lost her career as a result of knowing him. Only the little one had escaped him, and she had had to go to Argentina to do it. (Location 2970)
    • Note: first genuine potent momemt ogre
  • As he walked by her, he bent to kiss her head, wondering how she managed to remain civil, even friendly, with the grumbling thing he was in the morning. (Location 3003)
    • Note: like a couple of others a womans observation