Aldo, the elder, has all the psychological trappings of a sado-homosexual. Happenstance does pile up that way, but the main set of chance discoveries revolve around the brothers. The Donati brothers, separated for 20 years by WWII, each believing the other to be dead, are reunited after the younger chances to slip some money to his old nurse in Rome (whom he believes to be a beggar) thus causing her murder.
The story is set in Ruffano, Italy, a small university city that has grown up around the old ducal palaces. The Flight of the Falcon depends on the reader acceptance of so many coincidences that it is hard to believe that the bird will ever get off the ground, but it does. Daphne du Maurier is an excellent storyteller and can set in motion the most wornout mechanisms of melodrama in a way that doesn't irritate.
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