Giorgio Scherbanenko (real name Volodymyr; 1911, Kyiv - 1969, Milan), the son of a Ukrainian and an Italian woman, is rightly called the father of an Italian detective. During his life he wrote women's novels, and over the years he wrote a series of works, the protagonist of which was Duke Lamberti - a former doctor and now a private detective, intelligent, educated, with high professional qualities, representing the type of modern European investigator, while remaining
The debut of the new hero took place in 1966 in the novel "Private Venus", which immediately attracted the attention of critics and readers. Duca Lamberti's arena of Milan's slums, where he unravels murders and robberies, is in mortal danger, invariably winning.
"," Milanese kill on Saturdays. " The latest work also features characters from previous books - the girl Libya, who was saved from death by investigators, and his faithful assistant to Mascaranti.
