The Yellow and the Black

Tobias Jones

  • The Colombian Mule by Massimo Carlotto, translated by Christopher Woodall
    Orion, 156 pp, £9.99, December 2003, ISBN 0 7528 5733 9
  • The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli
    Picador, 249 pp, £6.99, February 2004, ISBN 0 330 49286 1
  • The Terracotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli
    Picador, 343 pp, £15.99, February 2004, ISBN 0 03 304929 7
  • Almost Blue by Carlo Lucarelli, translated by Oonagh Stransky
    Harvill, 169 pp, £9.99, August 2003, ISBN 0 18 434308 9
  • The Advocate: A Sardinian Mystery by Marcello Fois, translated by Patrick Creagh
    Vintage, 128 pp, £6.99, June 2004, ISBN 0 09 945374 6

In Padua, on 20 January 1976, a young girl called Margherita Magello was repeatedly stabbed and left for dead. She was discovered by Massimo Carlotto, a 19-year-old student radical and member of Lotta Continua, who tried to save her, and, in doing so, got covered in her blood. She died, he was arrested and, a pawn in the struggle between Lotta Continua and the police, was tried for her murder. Just before sentence was pronounced, his lawyer advised him to run. He escaped to Paris and ended up in Mexico, where, in 1985, he was betrayed by a Mexican lawyer and extradited to Italy. Retried, he was found guilty and imprisoned until, in 1993, he was pardoned by the president.

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