The Pyramid of Mud
New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018]
Format: Book
Description: 256 pages ; 20 cm
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.
Subjects:
Montalbano, Salvo (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories, Italian.
Construction industry -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Italy -- Fiction.
Montalbano, Salvo (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories, Italian.
Construction industry -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Italy -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780143128083
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M Camilleri | Southeast | Mystery | In |
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English translation of: La pirmaide di fango. Palermo: Sellerio Editore, ©2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the Italian.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the Italian.