The Snack Thief: Andrea Camilleri (Inspector Montalbano mysteries) - Softcover

Camilleri, Andrea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509850406 ISBN 13: 9781509850402

Verlag: Pan MacMillan UK, 2017

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Never has Inspector Montalbano's character - a unique blend of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food - been more compelling than in Andrea Camilleri's third Montalbano novel, The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house cleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other school children's mid-morning snacks., But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life - as well as Montalbano's - is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue.The Snack Thief is followed by the fourth Inspector Montalbano novel, The Voice of the Violin.

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The novels of Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humour and the sense of despair that fills the air of Sicily. Remarkable * Donna Leon * Both farcical and endearing, Montalbano is a cross between Columbo and Chandler's Philip Marlowe, with the added culinary idiosyncrasies of an Italian Maigret * Guardian *

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‘Tell me everything. But most of all, tell me about the snack thief.’

When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily’s coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents.
His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house-cleaner and sometimes prostitute, whose young son steals other school children’s mid-morning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief’s life – as well as Montalbano’s – is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper’s nest of government corruption and international intrigue.
Praise for the Inspector Montalbano series
‘Camilleri writes with such vigour and wit that he deserves a place alongside Michael Dibdin and Donna Leon’ Sunday Times
‘Quirky characters, crisp dialogue, bright storytelling – and Salvo Montalbano, one of the most engaging protagonists in detective fiction’ USA Today

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• Verlag: Pan MacMillan UK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1509850406
• ISBN 13: 9781509850402
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1