Nichts als schöner Schein das denken sich wohl die Leute, wenn sie »la Superliftata« in der Calle begegnen. Brunetti aber merkt, dass sich hinter den starren Zügen von Franca Marinello Geheimnisse verbergen. Nicht anders als hinter den feinen Fassaden von Venedig: Den Machenschaften der Müllmafia auf der Spur, entdeckt Brunetti die Kehrseite der Serenissima.
Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific laboratory. Brought together by a shared interest in the pigeons that nest in the hotel, Louisa discovers that the mysterious guest is Nikola Tesla, one of the most brilliant - and most neglected - inventors of the twentieth century.The Invention of Everything Else charts the relationship of the girl and the genius during the last week of Tesla's life, when sinister forces are closing in on him. However, as well as being an engaging literary mystery, this exceptional novel movingly tells the life story of this extraordinary man and also recounts the heartbreak and redemption of one ordinary family..