The Golden Egg: Book 22 (Commissario Brunetti)

While making routine enquiries into a possible bribery case, Commissario Brunetti receives a call from his wife, Paola. The deaf-mute man who helped out at the Brunetti"s dry cleaners has been found dead. An empty bottle of pills points to suicide, but Paolo is unconvinced. To the neighbourhood he was the `boy" they came to rely upon, but nobody knew much about him - not even his name. That a soul could have lived such a joyless and lonely life is too much for Paola to bear, and she begs her husband to investigate.