TY - BOOK AU - Camilleri,Andrea AU - Sartarelli,Stephen TI - The pyramid of mud SN - 9781447298359 U1 - 853.914 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Mantle KW - Montalbano, Salvo, KW - Detective and mystery stories, Italian KW - Construction industry KW - Corrupt practices KW - Fiction KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Floods KW - Mafia KW - Police KW - Italy KW - Sicily (Italy) KW - Mystery fiction KW - gsafd KW - Crime-Europe KW - Adult fiction KW - Print KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft N1 - English translation of: La pirmaide di fango. Palermo: Sellerio Editore, ©2014; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - On a gloomy morning in Vigàta, a call from Fazio rouses Inspector Montalbano from a nightmare. A man called Giugiù Nicotra has been found dead in the skeletal workings of a construction site--a place now entombed by a sea of mud from recent days of rain and floods. Shot in the back, he had fled into a water supply system tunnel. The investigation gets off to a slow start, but all the evidence points to the world of construction and public contracts, a world just as slimy and impenetrable as mud. As he wades through a world in which construction firms and public officials thrive, Montalbano is obsessed by one thought: that by going to die in the tunnel, Nicotra had been trying to communicate something ER -