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Gabriele Malfitano was murdered in the courtyard of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples at night in mysterious circumstances leading to the theft of the Venus Callipigia. Antonio Sanvitale, his close friend, is not a detective: he lives in Naples but runs a B&B in New York that he inherited from his father, Archie Goodwin, the man who had been Nero Wolfe's right-hand man and remained the sole owner of the house at 918 West 35th Street, which Antonio found shortly before he died. With Lucrezia Sanvitale, his mother, his friend Elisa Mascia, and Elizabeth Gandolfini, chef and B&B. hostess, they form a team to find Gabriele's killer. They will come across a complex world: Russian oligarchs influencing the West, routes to the centre of the Mediterranean, trafficking in works of art, real and fake, the power of money and the salvation offered by beauty.