The pyramid of mud / Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
Language: English Original language: Italian Series: Inspector Montalbano. 22 | Camilleri, Andrea. Inspector Montalbano mystery ; [22].Publication details: London : Mantle, 2018.Description: 272 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781447298359
- Piramide di fango. English
- Montalbano, Salvo, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories, Italian
- Construction industry -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Floods -- Fiction
- Mafia -- Fiction
- Police -- Italy -- Fiction
- Murder -- Fiction
- Italy -- Fiction
- Sicily (Italy) -- Fiction
- 853.914 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | CAM | Montalbano Bk.22 | Available | 068974 |
English translation of: La pirmaide di fango. Palermo: Sellerio Editore, ©2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Translated from the Italian.
