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Investigator Yashim travels to Venice in the latest installment of the Edgar® Award–winning author Jason Goodwin's captivating historical mystery series
Jason Goodwin's first Yashim mystery, The Janissary Tree, brought home the Edgar® Award for Best Novel. His follow-up, The Snake Stone, more than lived up to expectations and was hailed by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review as "a magic carpet ride to the most exotic place on earth." Now, in The Bellini Card, Jason Goodwin takes us back into his "intelligent, gorgeous and evocative" (The Independent on Sunday) world, as dazzling as a hall of mirrors and utterly compelling.
Istanbul, 1840: the new sultan, Abdülmecid, has heard a rumor that Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, our eunuch detective, is promptly asked to investigate, but -- aware that the sultan's advisers are against any extravagant repurchase of the painting -- decides to deploy his disempowered Polish ambassador friend, Palewski, to visit Venice in his stead. Palewski arrives in disguise in down-and-out Venice, where a killer is at large as dealers, faded aristocrats, and other unknown factions seek to uncover the whereabouts of the missing Bellini.
But is it the Bellini itself that endangers all, or something associated with its original loss? And why is it that all the killer's victims are somehow tied to the alluring Contessa d'Aspi d'Istria? Will the Austrians unmask Palewski, or will the killer find him first? Only Yashim can uncover the truth behind the manifold mysteries.
The Paperback Edition Includes an Author Interview, Bonus Inspector Yashim Recipe, and an Excerpt from the Next Inspector Yashim Mystery, An Evil Eye
- Sales Rank: #106184 in Books
- Brand: Picador
- Published on: 2010-03-02
- Released on: 2010-03-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .72" w x 5.50" l, .66 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
- Great product!
From Publishers Weekly
Near the start of Edgar-winner Goodwin's fine third historical to feature the eunuch Yashim, who serves the Ottoman rulers of early 19th-century Turkey (after 2008's The Snake Stone), Yashim's close friend Stanislaw Palewski, the Polish ambassador to the Turkish sultan, accepts an undercover assignment on the sultan's behalf. Posing as an American, the diplomat travels to Venice in an effort to locate a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror (who reclaimed Constantinople from the Christians in 1453), painted by the legendary artist Gentile Bellini. Fortunately for Palewski, Yashim, who has a secret plan for the painting's recovery, intervenes in time to set the mission on the right track after the murder of two art dealers. While Yashim initially plays a backstage role, the eunuch and a shadowy power broker engage in an exciting and complex duel of wits in the book's final quarter. Once again, Goodwin skillfully blends deduction, action sequences and period color. (Mar.)
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From Booklist
*Starred Review* Intrigue, treachery, and murder infuse early-nineteenth-century European society, and only one savvy eunuch, Inspector Yashim of Istanbul, can navigate the serpentine political connections and hidden agendas, as evidenced in The Janissary Tree (2006) and The Snake Stone (2007). Now, with the death of the old sultan, the pashas are jockeying for power. When the new sultan, young Abdulmecid, orders Yashim to Venice to retrieve the lost portrait of Mahmut the Conqueror, the sly vizier Resid tries to nix the plan. Yashim secretly sends his friend Palewski instead, who royally bungles the assignment. Reluctantly, Yashim comes to the rescue and nimbly skirts certain death in the canal, bests the violent but lovely Contessa d’Aspi d’Istria, sets the local constabulary to rights, and discovers the truth about Mahmut, his portrait, and its secrets. Yashim’s adventure in Venice is a toothsome, wryly humorous, and historically accurate view of La Serenissima, seen through the eyes of a very unusual man: a Turkish eunuch as adept with a sword as a kitchen knife and who bemoans the loss of his beloved old friend, Sultan Mahmut II. Goodwin vividly evokes Istanbul embroiled in change, like Jenny White’s The Sultan’s Seal (2005) and Katie Hickman’s The Aviary Gate (2008), and he delivers a visceral experience of historical Venice similar to David Hewson’s Lucifer’s Shadow (2004). --Jen Baker
Review
“When you read a historical mystery by Jason Goodwin, you take a magic carpet ride to the most exotic place on earth.” ―Marilyn Stasio , The New York Times Book Review
“Escapist fiction at its most seductive.” ―Heather O'Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplement
“Goodwin's previous books took us into the alleys and byways of nineteenth-century Istanbul. This is an equally vivid and well-informed account of Venice in 1840 . . . The plot is lively and interesting; but the real delight in this book is the atmospheric portrait of a fascinating place.” ―Literary Review
“Wonderfully entertaining . . . [Goodwin] uses short, punchy chapters and vibrant, atmospheric prose to bring the glory days of the Ottoman capital to life.” ―Adam Woog, The Seattle Times on The Snake Stone
“Everything you could want from a novel--beautifully written, a cracking story, and, in the figure of Yashim the eunuch, a wonderfully seductive and original detective.” ―Kate Mose, author of Labyrinth on The Janissary Tree
Most helpful customer reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Not a great book
By Lindy
This third book in the Yashim series shows us, as usual, that Mr. Goodwin is a thorough historical researcher, so the great tidbits of life in both Istanbul and Venice constitute a true pleasure and result in my rating of two stars. As a novelist, however, Mr. Goodwin is showing himself to be less and less skilled. This plot is far too tricky, even for Mr. Goodwin to untangle. Furthermore, this author repeatedly violates the basic rule of good novel writing: "SHOW the reader, don't tell the reader." In his first two novels of this series, Mr. Goodwin made us really love Yashim, his cohorts and his exotic setting, so we look forward to new Yashim tales. Obviously, readers worldwide do, as well. But Mr. Goodwin needs to stop writing novels by the seat of his pants, now that he has a good series going, and start mastering the craft of good written storytelling. His loyal readers deserve much better plotting and writing. Finally, I think Mr. Goodwin is probably pretty lucky that Donna Leon has not sued him for shamelessly stealing her famous Venetian cop, Guido Brunetti, for this particular book and concocting a near-carbon-copy ... named Brunelli, would you believe? Please. Plagiarism is just not clever or amusing.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting Twists and Turns
By Vimala Nowlis
After the blunder of The Evil Eye, the author is back in form. His charming style, after missing in action in “The Evil Eye”, is in full view again. By setting the story in Venice, a city between land and sea and between East and West, it gives the author a chance to show off the history and the beauty of Istanbul’s sister-city. To give Yashim a rest, the first half of the story focused on his best friend, Palewski, the Polish ambassador without a country. But, the poor Palewski seem to have lost his analytical power he had displayed in the author’s previous books. His unexpected commission and vacation in Venice seemed to have turned him into a trusting simpleton. Fortunately, Yashim came to the rescue just in time and solved the mystery with his usual deft mind and sharp insight.
It is strange that, despite being a eunuch, Yashim seemed to have had intimate close encounters with ravishing foreign females in every story. It just goes to show that sex is more than just intercourse. As there was no danger of conception, in the harem parlance, it’s “vegetarian diet”.
The author must really love cooking and dedicated many pages describing Turkish recipes and cooking instructions in every one of his books. It seems that every dish involved dicing onions and mincing garlic, then you add lemon juice. In French cooking, there is a saying, “When in doubt, add more wine.” In Mediterranean cooking, the saying is. “When in doubt, add more garlic.” With garlic and lemon, of course everything tastes good.
I was disappointed that the famous eight-pointed stars that made the endless knots and links, popular in Islamic decorations and the main pattern symbol of the story, was not on the cover. Instead, the cover showed a design of repeating squares and triangles making isolated pyramids, not links nor knots, which has nothing to do with Islam.
There is a minor confusion here – In his prior book “The Evil Eye” which took place about 1839, the bridge linking Istanbul and Pera was completed and an opening celebration was held. But, in this book which took place around 1840, they were just beginning to build the bridge. Did the bridge of 1839 collapse?
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Exciting mystery, based on historical fact.
By megan whitby
This is one of a series about an Ottoman detective, Hashim, who has been an advisor to the Sultan, and who leaves Topkapi Palace to lead a private life. But since he has been a great advisor and problem solver to the Sultan, he is called back from time to time to do something the sultan needs doing. In this case, a portrait of a previous sultan is missing, and the present Sultan has been advised that it might be in Venice. So Hashim goes to Venice , which had long been a trading partner of the Ottomans, and tries to find out (1) does such a painting exist? and (2 ) and where it it?
In the course of reading this series (the Snake Stone, the Janissary Tree, etc...) you learn a lot about Istanbul in the last century, the different nationalities who made up the population, the water system, the legendary Janasseries, etc) The writer, Jason Goodwin, is a historian, who wrote a very good back about the Ottomans, and obviously knows Istanbul well. He's a great storyteller - I've enjoyed all these books tremendously.
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