All Rome Trembled: The Strange Affair of Wilma Montesi
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The nude body on the beach exploded Italy’s “Scandal of the Century.” Among the participants was a seemingly placid family group, with the beautiful young victim in its midst; suave Marchese from the South; his raven-haired mistress, one of Italy’s newly emancipated girl-women of the North; a jazz pianist, son of one of the nation’s rulers; his inamorata, a famous, still-lovely film star; a disillusioned, disoriented existentialist; her lover, a wild-eyed, drug-taking painter; maneuvering politicos of the Centre; an eager young editor who thought an exposé would set things right; the dynamic head of the nation’s security forces, who had too many friends; the fat chief of Rome’s police, who had too few; the smart Communist lawyer who was suddenly splattered with the mud he had hurled; the mountainous detective, ruthless in his investigations, breasting diversionary waves as he pushed towards terrible conclusions; and the carefree nephew of the ex-King of Italy…
“Sensational”—New York Herald Tribune
Melton S. Davis
Melton S. Davis was an American author and writer for various international newspapers and magazines. He was born in Brooklyn, raised in San Francisco, which he still calls his home town, and attended the University of Alabama. He joined the army as a private and rose to the rank of second lieutenant during the Second World War. After his discharge he worked for UNESCO in Paris, and then for Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA), a United States government agency set up in 1948, administering the Marshall Plan. In 1952, Davis established himself in Rome, serving as the Rome Bureau Chief for the Mutual Broadcasting System, and began writing for magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post, Holiday, Business Week, and newspapers, including The New York Times and Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle. He also wrote articles for many foreign publications, including Republique Moderne and Le Monde Français in France, Fortnightly in England, Mondo Europeo for Italy, and the Toronto Star Weekly in Canada. His magazine article and books have been translated into many languages, including his worldwide bestseller, All Rome Trembled, which was first published in 1957.
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