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Arabesk

by Barbara Nadel · 2000

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When the wife of one of Istanbul's best known popular singers is found dead and his baby daughter missing, the newly promoted Inspector Suleyman, scion of one of Turkey's most aristocratic families, finds himself plunged into the magnificently vulgar, overblown world of Arabesk music, dominated by an ageing star, the monstrous chanteuse, Tansu.

Genre
mysterycrimedetectivehistorical fictionhistorical mystery
Setting
IstanbulTurkeyMiddle East
Audience
adult
Length
long · 480 pages

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