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Lucarelli, Carlo. Carte Blanche. Europa, dist. by Consortium. Jul. 2006. c.120p. tr. from Italian by Michael Reynolds. ISBN 1-933372-15-X. pap. $14.95. F
Lucarelli's (Almost Blue) hard-boiled police thriller takes place in the last few months of World War II, as Mussolini's regime is collapsing. A wealthy man named Rehinard Vittorio is found stabbed and castrated in Bologna. Commissario De Luca is assigned the case and quickly realizes that drugs, sadistic sex, the SS, and dirty money are at the core of the murder. Vittorio was a member of the Fascist Republican Party and a regular at the Spiritist's Club. As De Luca digs deeper into the case and locates some of …