- Police, Missing children, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
A secret apartment and a grisly find in an old trunk are just the beginning, as Montalbano navigates his way though the case, as well as coping with the sweltering heat, the suspicious death of an Arab labourer and the tempting lure of a beautiful girl.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Andrea Camilleri
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 284
- Publisher
- Picador, Picador USA, Pan Macmillan
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781509850389
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Andrea Camilleri is an Italian writer. Originally from Sicily, Camilleri began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories. From 1948 to 1950 Camilleri studied stage and film direction at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts and began to take on work as a director and screenwriter, directing especially plays by Pirandello and Beckett. Camilleri also worked on several TV productions, such as Inspector Maigret with Gino Cervi. In 1977 he returned to the Academy of Dramatic Arts, holding the chair of Film Direction and occupying it for 20 years. In 1978 Camilleri wrote his first novel Il Corso Delle Cose ("The Way Th
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