A Last Lamp Burning: A Novel

511 pp. Naples is the setting for this tumultuous, multifaceted novel of passion and greed. It is the story of the great inheritance of Ercole Sanbrenedetto, an embittered, wealthy old bachelor, whose long-awaited death sets in motion intrigue, seduction, and, for some, the struggle-to-death for what each member of the family considers his rightful heritage. Griffin takes the reader from the teeming life of Naples's most dangerous slum to the rococo grandeur of the palazzi of the aristocrats.