(Only in Italian at the moment)
“The Scarlet Keys”, Nick Mur’s debut, has been published in 2002 by Contendium which chose it among the participants of a competition of detective stories which, yet, it didn’t win.

In several countries of the world, some collectors get murdered by a mysterious sect,
which kills all the possessors of strange oriental artefacts.
But when these occurrences cut across Devil Smoke,
a weird and inexplicable character, appeared on the scene apparently by chance, together with the crazy midget Her,
the mystery will reach a gradual clearness.
Between the evocative myths of the ancient orient,
with absolutely documented historical outlines and flash trips here and there around the globe, coloured by hilarious irony,
the various rank of the characters which will accompany the protagonist will have to help him find out what the arcane Scarlet Keys open.