In my last article about writing and Venice, I raised the following question.
How can a city so possess a writer so that no other place could possibly be a proper setting for the events, which must unfold in the story? And so, in telling you more of my own journey through Venice, I continue to search for an answer. Put another way, the question might be For me, has the city of Venice dictated the story of A Trial of one?
In Venice, I was staying in the area between San Marco and the Rialto. The darkened streets or calles were narrow and arranged in a devious maze, which, at first, appeared rather sinister. But once I realized I was perfectly safe wandering about, I went down the narrowest calles at night, without a second thought.
The setting was so inspiring as to send my protagonist in the Osgoode Trilogy, Harry Jenkins rushing panic stricken through the narrow calles. In this part of A Trial of One, Harry is on a search for thirty million dollars for his elderly client, Norma Dinnick. And he is shadowed every step of the way by Garth, the vicious but not too bright, emissary of Dr. Robert Hawke, also claimant to the millions.
In his hurry, he...