Inspector montalbano the terracotta dog6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() A recent villain is a doctor in thrall to the Mafia, who provides them with human hearts, livers and kidneys. ![]() ![]() The crimes are nothing if not topical: illegal immigrants, drug-peddling, prostitution, fraud and money-laundering. ![]() It was never Camilleri's intention to write more than a couple of Montalbano books, and only when the second and most original story, Il cane di terracotta (The Terracotta Dog, 1996), was greeted with enthusiasm by critics and readers alike did Camilleri decide to put his middle-aged policeman through all sorts of increasingly complicated criminal hoops. In 1994, however, he had invented Detective Inspector Salvo Montalbano in the novel La forma dell'acqua (The Shape of Water), and now both he and his hero are household names. A ndrea Camilleri is the most successful author in Italy, yet little more than a decade ago he was a virtually unknown septuagenarian who had written a handful of historical novels, including the intriguing Il birraio di Preston (The Brewer from Preston, 1995), set in his native Sicily. ![]()
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