one of my favorite Venetian Villains

God love that De Luigi - defacing the construction mural with flames coming out of the window's is a perfect compliment to the ongoing construction bid catastrophe. It is ironic that when the ruling came down, the architect who got second place in the bidding process, suddenly dies in a car crash.

Berendt did fall into one heck of a story to write about (rather conveniently... he was coming off of the success of Midnight and looking for a new book) and happened to be in town (again, conveniently) at the time of the fire... hmmmm....