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Detective Montalbano: Episodes 25 & 26: 2 2013 "A Voice in the Night" and "A Ray of Light" 24 September 2013 Detective Montalbano: Episodes 27 & 28: 2 2016 "A Delicate Matter" and "The Mud Pyramid" 28 June 2016 Detective Montalbano: Episodes 29 & 30: 2 2017 "A Nest of Vipers" and "As Per Procedure" 27 June 2017 Detective Montalbano: Episodes 31 ...
Montalbano excels at balancing between these two, while being true to his principles. [2] Although the Inspector Montalbano series of novels is staged in the Sicilian context, Camilleri uncompromisingly confronts many contemporary political and social problems. The novels were translated into English by Stephen Sartarelli. The translation of ...
Salvo Montalbano investigates the murder of Lapecora, a middle-aged accountant, found stabbed in the back in the lift of the building where he lived. Under questioning, the victim's widow bitterly accuses her husband's mistress, a beautiful Tunisian woman named Kherima, who vanished on the day of the murder, taking with her François, her six-year-old son.
On his way to a funeral, Montalbano's driver avoids what seems to be a suicidal chicken, making the car skid and hitting another car parked in front of a villa. The inspector leaves a note under the windshield wiper of the damaged car to warn the owner. Since his colleague complains about the blow he received, the two go to the hospital.
Montalbano soon finds the man in a sort of pied-à-terre, killed by a shot in the face and left in an obscene position: a suitable position, since the man was a well-known womanizer and had many sexual affairs with attractive women, one of whom seems more involved than the others, Elena Sclafani.
The arrest causes Montalbano to have to appear at a press conference and be considered for promotion, both of which he does not appreciate. At the same time there has also been a seemingly unrelated and mysterious theft of a grocery store delivery truck; the truck is discovered the next morning, abandoned, with the stolen goods still within and ...
The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries: One 23 December 1990 29 August 1994 Inspector George Gently: One 8 April 2007 30 October 2017 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: One 12 March 2001 1 June 2008 Inspector Montalbano: Four 13 December 2008 – 2 July 2022 28 December 2019 – 13 May 2023 The Interceptor: One 10 June 2015 29 July 2015 Into the West: Two
Montalbano is investigating the mysterious bond that unites a couple and an unrelated man in the same violent death. Thanks to his unique professional insight, and perhaps even more to his feelings as a sensitive man, Montalbano successfully concludes the investigation, moving inbetween the boundaries set by the world of tradition and that of ...