Chapters 20-21 Summary

In Chapter 20, Brunetti meets with Dami at the restaurant. The restaurant owner, Signorina Antonia, dictates the meals she thinks are appropriate to the two diners, and Dami tentatively adds a salad to his order. Brunetti asks about Dami's work, and Dami explains that he has to write two reviews of artists he despises. One of them will be a good review because a director of the newspaper is friends with the artist's husband.

As Brunetti and Dami start the next course, the detective asks if he has got more information about Clemenza. Dami has not found out more about her, but he has gossip about Flavia. She became a sensation from her first understudy performance. As he is telling the story, Signorina Antonia comes to take away their risotto, upset that Dami has not finished his. She serves the fish, threatening...