Named Library Journal Best Fiction in Translation 2013.

"Cocaine is a brilliant black comedy that belongs on the same shelf as Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies and Dawn Powell's The Wicked Pavilion. Pitigrilli is an acidic aphorist and a wicked observer of social folly."--Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls

"Pitigrilli was an enjoyable writer--spicy and rapid--like lightning."--Umberto Eco

"The name of the author Pitigrilli ... is so well known in Italy as to be almost a byword for 'naughtiness' ......