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The Inspector Montalbano (Italian: Il commissario Montalbano [il kommisˈsaːrjo montalˈbaːno]) television series are Italian police procedural stories. Based on Andrea Camilleri 's detective novels , they are located in the imaginary town of Vigàta , Sicily , which is based on Camilleri's native Porto Empedocle .
Inspector [a] Salvo Montalbano is a fictional police chief who is a brilliant detective created by Italian writer Andrea Camilleri in a series of novels and short stories. The books were written in a mixture of Italian, strict Sicilian , and Sicilian Italian .
Montalbano investigates the death of Enea Silvio Piccolomini, a blind gentleman who died from an overdose of the medication he was taking. The story has unexpected consequences. With Livia and Orlando, the big dog of the Piccolomini, Montalbano goes to the island of Levanzo under the guise of a short break, but in actual fact, travels to speak ...
A loud noise wakes Montalbano, caused by the stormy sea. The sea and the port of Vigata become the setting of Montalbano's new investigation, involving two vessels moored side by side at the Vigata docks: a powerful speedboat and the "Vanna", a luxury yacht whose crew has found a dinghy at sea carrying a disfigured man killed by poison.
In 1994, Camilleri published La forma dell'Acqua (The Shape of Water), the first in a long series of novels featuring Inspector Salvo Montalbano, a fractious detective in the police force of Vigàta, an imaginary Sicilian town.
Inspector Montalbano may refer to: Inspector Montalbano; Salvo Montalbano, the eponymous character in the above TV series and an earlier series of novels and short ...
Paper Moon follows the narration of Montalbano's inner crisis and his depression about oncoming old age, which seems to be afflicting him in mind and body. He meditates about death and the problems of growing old, with all its respective little impairments (loss of memory, sudden fears, loneliness and a propensity for crying).
Montalbano realizes that he's François: lurking with his girlfriend Livia and his men, he manages to take the little Tunisian who had taken refuge in an abandoned house. Livia, in reassuring the child brought home by Montalbano to protect him, will feel the birth of his maternal instinct and the desire to form a more intense union with Salvo ...