TY - BOOK AU - Camilleri,Andrea AU - Sartarelli,Stephen TI - The snack thief T2 - An Inspector Montalbano mystery SN - 9781509850402 U1 - 853.914 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Picador KW - Montalbano, Salvo, KW - Corruption KW - fast KW - Missing persons KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Police KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Italy KW - Fiction KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Originally published in Italian: Palermo, Italy : Sellerio Editore as Il ladro di merendine N2 - 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 ER -