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Adam Strickland, a somewhat aimless young scholar at Cambridge University, is called to his professorâs office one afternoon and assigned a special summer project: to write a scholarly monograph about the famous Docci garden in Tuscany. Dedicated to the memory of a fifteenth-century noblemanâs young wife, the garden is a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills, and classical inscriptions. But Adam comes to suspect that something sinister lies buried in the gardenâs strange iconography. What if Lord Docciâs wife was murdered, and her memorial garden is filled with pointers to both the method and the motive of the crime?
As the odd history unfolds, Adam finds himself drawn into a parallel intrigue. Through his evolving relationship with the lady of the houseâthe ailing, seventy-something Signora Docciâhe hears stories of yet another violent death in the family, this one much more recent. The Signoraâs eldest son was shot by Nazi officers on the third floor of the villa, and her husband, now dead, insisted that the area be sealed and preserved forever. Like the garden, the third-floor rooms are frozen in time.
As Adam delves into his subject, he begins to suspect that his seemingly innocent history project might be a setup. Is he really just the naive student, stumbling upon clues, or is he being used to discover the true meaning of the villaâs murderous past?
About: Adam Strickland, a somewhat aimless young scholar at Cambridge University, is called to his professorâs office one afternoon and assigned a special summer project: to write a scholarly monograph about the famous Docci garden in Tuscany.
About: Assigned to write about a famous sixteenth-century garden, Cambridge scholar Adam Strickland visits the garden only to discover that the woman to whom the garden was dedicated may have been murdered, a finding that points to a more recent killing.
About: Adam Strickland, a somewhat aimless young scholar at Cambridge University, is called to his professorâs office one afternoon and assigned a special summer project: to write a scholarly monograph about the famous Docci garden in Tuscany.
About: Assigned to write about a famous sixteenth-century garden, Cambridge scholar Adam Strickland visits the garden only to discover that the woman to whom the garden was dedicated may have been murdered, a finding that points to a more recent killing.
About: Assigned to write about a famous sixteenth-century garden, Cambridge scholar Adam Banting visits the garden only to discover that the woman to whom the garden was dedicated may have been murdered, a finding that points to a more recent killing.
About: Assigned to write about a famous sixteenth-century garden, Cambridge scholar Adam Banting visits the garden only to discover that the woman to whom the garden was dedicated may have been murdered, a finding that points to a more recent killing.
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