--- product_id: 52110856 title: "Alibi" price: "€ 35.64" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/52110856-alibi store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # Alibi **Price:** € 35.64 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Alibi - **How much does it cost?** € 35.64 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/52110856-alibi) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Buy Alibi New Ed by Kanon, Joseph (ISBN: 9780751537260) from desertcart's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Review: great plot and story - Intriguing story linking the past with the present. Characters were believable and with the story set in the magnificent setting of Venice. Review: Venice with Dark Shadows - Where some authors establish the foundations of a series by character, environment, period, and then construct fresh plots around them, Joseph Kanon has the remarkable skill to make each novel new and unique. Los Alamos takes the reader to New Mexico, scene of the Manhattan Project. The Prodigal Spy is espionage in McCarthyite America and Iron Curtain Prague. The Good German recreates occupied Berlin at the end of World War II. Alibi also reaches back to 1946 and the ambiguity and unease of the immediate post-war period - but now we are in Venice. This is tangible, almost visible Venice, city of beautiful facades and dark byways. Grace Miller, an American widow, is revisiting memories of a happier Venetian stay, Harry's Bar, the Gritti Palace, cocktails and parties in the thirties, dancing to Cole Porter tunes. Many of her old cronies remain; they introduce her to Doctor Maglione a wealthy widower. A marriage is in prospect. The idyll is disrupted by the arrival of Grace's son, Adam, recently released from his role as an army investigator in de-Nazifying Germany. Adam meets, and falls in love with, a Jewish girl, Claudia. Soon the prospects of well-adjusted happiness are disrupted. Doctor Maglione may not be all he appears. Bertie, the urbane lotus-eating Irishman, disseminates gossip but seeks to allay concern. The policeman, Inspector Cavallini, is relaxed but has a murder to investigate. Where in all this are Adam and Claudia placed? Centrally, it transpires. Joseph Kanon peels away layer after layer of a dark and troubling tale that doesn't quite end with the final page. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 451,874 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 3,790 in Crime, Thriller & Mystery Adventures 6,096 in Adventure Stories & Action 10,797 in Historical Fiction (Books) | | Customer reviews | 3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars (1,877) | | Dimensions | 19.9 x 2.8 x 20 cm | | Edition | New Ed | | ISBN-10 | 0751537268 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0751537260 | | Item weight | 286 g | | Language | English | | Print length | 416 pages | | Publication date | 5 April 2007 | | Publisher | Sphere | ## Images ![Alibi - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81lAl3YslaL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ great plot and story *by P***W on 28 April 2025* Intriguing story linking the past with the present. Characters were believable and with the story set in the magnificent setting of Venice. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Venice with Dark Shadows *by G***M on 28 September 2010* Where some authors establish the foundations of a series by character, environment, period, and then construct fresh plots around them, Joseph Kanon has the remarkable skill to make each novel new and unique. Los Alamos takes the reader to New Mexico, scene of the Manhattan Project. The Prodigal Spy is espionage in McCarthyite America and Iron Curtain Prague. The Good German recreates occupied Berlin at the end of World War II. Alibi also reaches back to 1946 and the ambiguity and unease of the immediate post-war period - but now we are in Venice. This is tangible, almost visible Venice, city of beautiful facades and dark byways. Grace Miller, an American widow, is revisiting memories of a happier Venetian stay, Harry's Bar, the Gritti Palace, cocktails and parties in the thirties, dancing to Cole Porter tunes. Many of her old cronies remain; they introduce her to Doctor Maglione a wealthy widower. A marriage is in prospect. The idyll is disrupted by the arrival of Grace's son, Adam, recently released from his role as an army investigator in de-Nazifying Germany. Adam meets, and falls in love with, a Jewish girl, Claudia. Soon the prospects of well-adjusted happiness are disrupted. Doctor Maglione may not be all he appears. Bertie, the urbane lotus-eating Irishman, disseminates gossip but seeks to allay concern. The policeman, Inspector Cavallini, is relaxed but has a murder to investigate. Where in all this are Adam and Claudia placed? Centrally, it transpires. Joseph Kanon peels away layer after layer of a dark and troubling tale that doesn't quite end with the final page. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Post War Settling Of Fascist Collaboration. *by S***E on 20 August 2019* Post war Venice; guilt and shame run though the Dramatis personae and their society like the canals run through the city: swirling, shallow here, deep there, polluted and corrupt and all pervasive. The story sets itself up quite well until, part way through, there is a murder. We know from this point who did the killing. From thereon the guilty alternate between covering for themselves and fretting when an innocent person becomes a strong suspect. The book by now is in free fall so far as plausibility is concerned. The murderers try to exonerate the accused risking their own exposure, and involving the poor reader in a convoluted and tangled narrative. On and implausibly on they go, flailing about alternately covering for themselves with trying to exonerate the police's innocent suspect. The innocent accused has a history snaking back into Venice's wartime fascist, not so distant past, linking him to the guilty pair's murder victim, but it was so tenuously introduced I couldn't understand or follow it; my fault or the author's? Either way, the rest of the story lost its point and thread, becoming a cop drama until, at the end, after a well written chase, the whole thing breaks apart with various people acting incongruously and turning out to be not what we thought. It seemed a gratuitous twist to me. The author writes quite well, and the individuals can even be distinguished by their dialogue. They don't all talk the same. The city's atmosphere and social life are well depicted. The story does race along despite the incoherence of the innocent suspect's wartime activities. It can be read as a post war adventure providing you can ignore the poorly drawn and prolonged moral fretting of the two murderers, the difficulty in seeing how the innocent suspect is involved, and the strange denouement. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.at/products/52110856-alibi](https://www.desertcart.at/products/52110856-alibi) --- *Product available on Desertcart Austria* *Store origin: AT* *Last updated: 2026-05-02*