The Flight of the Falcon

by Daphne Du Maurier

ISBN: 9781844080700

Published: 2005

Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum, life -- until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually learns, was his family's beloved servant many years gao, in his native town of Ruffano. Over five hundred years before, the sinister Duke Claudio, known as The Falcon, lived his twisted, brutal life preying on the people of Ruffano. Now, in the twentieth century, the town seems to have forgotten its violent history. But have things really changed? The parrallels between the past and present begin to converge iin this masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and hypnotic suspense.