Bibliograph

The terracotta dog, Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli

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Label

The terracotta dog, Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The terracotta dog

Responsibility statement

Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli

Series statement

Inspector Montalbano, 2

Summary

The Terracotta Dog opens with a mysterious teteatete with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers dead fifty years and still embracing are watched over by a lifesize terracotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the island's past and into a family's dark heart amid the horrors of World War II. Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic, engaging take on Sicilian smalltown life and his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of crimes

Target audience

adult

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Terracotta dog, an Inspector Montalbano mystery

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