The other end of the line / Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
Language: English Original language: Italian Series: Inspector Montalbano. 24 | Camilleri, Andrea. Inspector Montalbano mystery ; 24. | Inspector Montalbano mysteries ; Book 24.Publication details: London : Mantle, 2019.Description: 296 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781529001822 (paperback)
- L'altro capo del filo. English
- Montalbano, Salvo, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Montalbano, Salvo, (Fictitious character)
- Clothing trade -- Fiction
- Crime -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Political refugees -- Fiction
- Boat people -- Syria -- Italy -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Fiction
- Women dressmakers -- Fiction
- Police -- Italy -- Sicily -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Boat people
- Immigrants
- Murder -- Investigation
- Police
- Women dressmakers
- Sicily (Italy) -- Fiction
- Italy -- Sicily
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | CAM | Montalbano Bk.24 | Available | 062935 |
First published as L'altro capo del filo, in 2016 by Sellerio Editore, Palermo.
Includes bibliographical references.
In Inspector Montalbano's coastal town of Vigata, a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat, and all the town's hands are on deck to help the arrivals. At the heart of the scene are the police - on the lookout for the people smugglers responsible - and long night-shifts are rendering Inspector Montalbano and his officers exhausted. Then one night, while Montalbano is enduring yet another gruelling stint at the port, a separate crime is committed - unexplained, unexpected, and unpleasant. Elena, the dressmaker at the town's famous tailors, has been found dead - slaughtered by her own scissors... As a swell of desperate people arrive in search of a better life, Inspector Montalbano finds himself trying to unravel the mystery of who murdered the dressmaker. But as he makes his enquiries, the Inspector can't help but wonder: what will happen if he keeps tugging on this thread? And what will he find at the end of the line?
General.
Translated from the Italian.