For lovers of detective reading, an ever wider panorama of the Italian detective story, including the political one, is revealed. These books are very diverse, far from being of equal value, but taken together they represent an interesting and unique socio-literary phenomenon, highlighting those social problems, those aspects of Italian life that “serious” literature has not reached. And one cannot, wrinkling one’s nose, discount this popular, truly mass genre - a typically Italian type of literary work, in which elements of a social, psychological and detective novel are closely intertwined. This is the case with the novel offered to fans of this genre.