The pyramid of mud / Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Camilleri, Andrea. Inspector Montalbano mystery ; 22.Publisher: London : Mantle, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 272 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781447298342Uniform titles: Piramide di fango. English. (Sartarelli) Subject(s): Montalbano, Salvo (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Police -- Italy -- Sicily -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Mafia -- Italy -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. DDC classification: 853.914 Summary: It's been raining for days in Vigata, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved hometown, sweeping across the land and leaving only a sea of mud behind. It is on one of these endless grey days that a man, a Mr Giuglu Nicotra, is found dead. His body is discovered in a large sewage tunnel, half naked and with a bullet in his back. The investigation is slow and slippery to start with, but when Montalbano realises that every clue he uncovers and every person he interviews is leading to the same place: the world of public spending and with it, the Mafia, the case begins to pick up pace. But there's one question that keeps playing on Montalbano's mind: in his strange and untimely death, was Giuglu Nicotra trying to tell him something?
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Originally published in Italian in 2014 as "La piramide di fango" by Sellerio Editore, Palermo.
Translated from the Italian.
It's been raining for days in Vigata, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved hometown, sweeping across the land and leaving only a sea of mud behind. It is on one of these endless grey days that a man, a Mr Giuglu Nicotra, is found dead. His body is discovered in a large sewage tunnel, half naked and with a bullet in his back. The investigation is slow and slippery to start with, but when Montalbano realises that every clue he uncovers and every person he interviews is leading to the same place: the world of public spending and with it, the Mafia, the case begins to pick up pace. But there's one question that keeps playing on Montalbano's mind: in his strange and untimely death, was Giuglu Nicotra trying to tell him something?
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