In the first two stories, Carlo Monterossi finds himself confronted with a couple of educated and professional killers, two gypsies seeking revenge, a young hound with a broken heart, collectors and smugglers of Nazi-Fascist souvenirs, a few corpses too many and incredible cases of mistaken identity, a "dead" who returns from the dead to retrieve a treasure, a woman who seems t...
Vigàta, Sicily, Italy, 1880. Shortly after the return to the village of Fofò La Matina, pharmacist and son of the late Santo La Matina, jealous guardian of the secrets of certain miraculous plants, the noble Peluso family is ravaged by a series of mysterious deaths…