Isabella Amadeo

ベストセラーとなった新作小説「暗闇の祈り」を携え、米人推理小説作家のピーター・ニール(A・フランシオサ)は宣伝キャンペーンでローマを訪れた。その来訪を待っていたかのように次々と起こる凄惨な連続殺人。猟奇的なその犯行手口は「暗闇の祈り」を模倣したものだった...。

Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.