Death And The Dolce Vita eBook

Murder, Mystery and Scandal in 1950s Rome. On 9 April 1953, an attractive 21-year-old woman went missing from her family home in Rome. 36 hours later her body was found washed up on a negelected beach at Tor Vaianica. Some said it was suicide; others a tragic accident. Darker murmurs blamed her death on a drug-fulled orgy that had gone horribly wrong. The crime gripped the nation. And some were determined to find out the truth of what had happened: the mystery took them from the captial's seediest back streets right up to the highest office in the land. 'Dolce Vita' casts a fascinating light on the myriad colours and contradictions of 1950s Rome.