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Punta Secca (Sicilian: Punta Sicca), locally nicknamed ’A Sicca, is a small southern Italian fishing village and hamlet of Santa Croce Camerina, a municipality in the Province of Ragusa, Sicily. In 2011 it had a population of 226.
Inspector [a] Salvo Montalbano is a fictional police chief and 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 .
The Duomo of San Giorgio (i.e. "Dome of St. George") is a Baroque church located in Ragusa Ibla, Sicily, Italy.. Its construction began in 1738 and ended in 1775. [1]The cathedral appears in the opening credits of the Italian TV series Inspector Montalbano, and it also features in some episodes, as does the similarly named cathedral of Modica.
On the trail of Andrea Camilleri and Inspector Montalbano (in German, English, and Italian) Andrea Camilleri Reader Website (in German, English, and Italian) (in Italian) Vigata.org – Camilleri Fans Club; Popham, Peter (7 January 2007). "Andrea Camilleri: Once upon a time in Sicily". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 17 ...
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 .
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.
It is the eighth novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series. Set once again in Sicily, The Patience of the Spider pits Inspector Montalbano against his greatest foe yet: the weight of his own years. Still recovering from the gunshot wound he suffered in Rounding the Mark, he must overcome self-imposed seclusion and waxing ...
The Terracotta Dog (Italian: Il cane di terracotta) is a 1996 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2002 by Stephen Sartarelli.. It is the second novel of the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series. [1]