The snack thief / Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Camilleri, Andrea. Inspector Montalbano mystery ; 3.Publisher: London : Picador, 2017Copyright date: ©2003Description: 297 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509850402; 1509850406Uniform titles: Il ladro di merendine. English. Subject(s): Montalbano, Salvo, (Fictitious character) | Montalbano, Salvo, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Corruption | Missing persons | Murder -- Investigation | Police | Detective and mystery stories | Police -- Italy -- Fiction | Police -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Missing persons -- Fiction | Corruption -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. DDC classification: 853.914 Summary: When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house cleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other school children's mid-morning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life - as well as Montalbano's - is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue.
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Originally published in Italian: Palermo, Italy : Sellerio Editore as Il ladro di merendine.
When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house cleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other school children's mid-morning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life - as well as Montalbano's - is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue.
Translated from the Italian.
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