Word: nespoli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of his security police, Nespoli, began the manhunt full of confidence. At the end of three days he was stumped, and in mortal fear that his failure to find the murderer would mean, literally, his own head. Reluctantly he tried to pin the crime on an innocent scapegoat, a halfwitted girl. When that failed, it was anybody's head. Cassano became a city of pointing fingers...
...walled city of Cassano, imperfection reaches a fine pitch. Policeman Nespoli's mistress is willing to put the blame on her husband, recently dead, to save her lover's head. Her stepson, Diomede, fearful of losing his inheritance, buys the testimony of a prostitute that his late father spent the murder night with her. The prostitute, egged on by a money-mad sister, sells conflicting testimony to the boy's aunt. A kindly priest is torn by the Prince's demand that he tell the secrets of the confessional. Alone among the townspeople, Sperone, a poor...