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‘The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia’ reveals an Italian village’s deadly secrets
In an interview with The Paris Review, the Italian author Umberto Eco (”The Name of the Rose”) remarked, “the detective novel asks the central question of philosophy — who dunnit?” Readers love mysteries for the pleasure of their form — from the propulsive …