Reincarnation in Venice

Reincarnation in Venice is a science fiction or mystery book written by popular fiction author Max Simon Ehrlich and published in 1979 by Simon & Schuster in New York.

The author begins his story by declaring that on one balmy September morning in 1954 a 25-year-old Venetian man steps out of a mansion just off the Grand Canal and into the street: Before the day is through, he will have died unceremoniously, and his body thrown into one of the canals.

The story picks up again on page 23, apparently decades later in another part of the world when a young and wealthy computer programmer walking down East 50th Street in New York, notices in the window of an antique shop an item that catches his eye.

But the medallion carries a curious coat of arms upon its face, and must have been minted privately by some noble family in Italy.

And thus begins a long journey that takes him back to another man's life - and death - in Venice.