gaze in the dark - Introduction of the author
"The story is dedicated to a particular person, a man who became blind for a story medical malpractice. The man, using a special machine for the blind, read my first mystery novel and a few months ago I phoned to tell me that those pages had seen his country. At that time I told the story related to its new status as a blind person. The words of the man I was impressed in the minds and some of those phrases have been included in this story as a reflection on the subject. I thank the editor Antonio Lalli, Lalli Editore publishing house, which has enabled this initiative and the free promotion of the character. I renew my thanks to director David Rossi and Luciano Livi director of the news "thread Diretto 7 – periodico settimanale di informazione e di attualità del Gruppo Montepaschi” che hanno sempre dato spazio alle notizie del commissario Cantagallo e che in questa occasione hanno pubblicato on-line il racconto. La storia è ambientata nei luoghi abituali del commissario Cantagallo e i personaggi sono più o meno gli stessi del primo romanzo. Il racconto si inserisce nella serie dei due romanzi gialli già pubblicati: Dentro un vicolo cieco (Lalli - 2007) e Omicidio sotto il sole (Lalli - 2008) che sono presenti nella collana “Narrativa libri - Biblioteca del Giallo” della stessa casa editrice http://www.lallieditore.it/ . Infine, questo è il terzo racconto inedito pubblicato su internet: “Il filo di Arianna” (Valdelsa.net - 2008) http://www.valdelsa.net/speciali/libri/arianna/libro-filo-arianna-parte-1.htm , ‘Il barone di Occhiolà’ (Messinaweb.eu - 2009) http://www.messinaweb.eu/home.php?page_id=16733&id=7&id_par=16720 . La storia è un omaggio in tutti i sensi a Filo Diretto 7 e ai lettori del commissario Cantagallo perché il testo è completamente gratuito - free, come si dice oggi per fare capire a tutti che una cosa è di libero utilizzo senza niente da pagare - e tutti possono leggerlo comodamente e tranquillamente senza spendere un euro. Buona lettura a tutti”.
Fabio Marazzoli
Fabio Marazzoli
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The story can be read free at Direct Line, the weekly online magazine of the MPS Group,
from Thursday, June 18, 2009.
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The story in brief
The dark night of Collitondi turns red for the blood spilled on the pavement by a poor blind man brutally murdered in a dark alley in the country. Murder committed by a few thugs or a tragic coincidence for a man who had to be in that place at that time? These and other questions must be answered Commissioner Cantagallo. The Quaestor Zondadari, however, do not pose questions and wants to close the case. For the Questor has been a tragic fatality: a clash between rival gangs of local Chinese underworld, where the blind man went to slip by accident. Cantagallo replication and does not accept the version of the facts of his head that he is not even standing with the wires. The Quaestor shake before the eyes of the Commissioner of the bogeyman 'Furies yellow' and waving in front of those Cantagallo Zondadari that of a lean figure immortalized investigation of the printed newspapers. Commissioner convinces the Police, and began his painstaking search for clues and traces of the perpetrator of the murder. At first everything seems too plausible and too simple to be true. Cantagallo is not convinced and wants to see clearly because the survey still has some unclear points. Then, suddenly, the darkness that surrounds this case is torn open by a light illuminates the right way of Cantagallo and showing the way forward to understand what happened. The road is winding and to do all the twists and turns are analyzed in the work room of the police which is a real laboratory investigations. Analyzing the traces is the daily bread of Cantagallo which will also have time to make a quick trip to a Chinese restaurant, but not for eating. So this story really got to do the Chinese? Maybe yes and maybe no. Definitely the talk of the commissioner with a certain Mr. Miao is a rift in the darkness of the survey. At the end there is a shot in the auction scene and the offender falls trap built by the Commissioner. Cantagallo makes a tormented stop and catch the murderer with a crime that he wanted to change their destiny. Perhaps the murderess was better known oriental languages, where an old Chinese saying: "It is easier to pervert the course of a river or flatten a mountain than to change the mind of a man."
