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Βερονάλ

Veronal

Takis Theodoropoulos (Τάκης Θεοδωρόπουλος, born 1954)

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In 1937 the classical scholar Ioannis Sykoutris, only thirty-six, dies with a used vial of the barbiturate Veronal among his things, though the coroner rules a heart attack and the press repeats it.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
176 pages in the original
Genres
Historical (assigned by AI)
Set in
Greece, 1937
First published
2015 by Μεταίχμιο
Author's age
61 when first published
ISBN

9786180303513 (original)