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The Shape of Water: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
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Author
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Andrea Camilleri. Stephen Sartarelli, trans.
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Publisher
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Picador
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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7.75
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5.1
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0.7
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ISBN
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9781447235095
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Pages/Publication Date
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249/2004
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Daedalus Item Code
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30418
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This item is not available.
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Description
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The goats of Vigāta once grazed on what is still known as "the Pasture," although the trash-strewn, sirocco-swept site is now more likely to be populated with drug dealers and prostitutes. But in this first Inspector Montalbano mystery, their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendor Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Lupanello. Despite pressure from the local bigwigs to accept the coroner's verdict of "death by natural causes," Montalbano picks his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta firepower, and carefully planted false clues, determined to get to the heart of the matter. With his sardonic take on small-town Sicilian life, his gustatory predilections, his delicate balancing act between the official and unofficial worlds he inhabits, and his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of crimes, Inspector Salvo Montalbano has won millions of fans worldwide. First appearing in Italian in 1994, and in Stephen Sartarelli's superb annotated translations since 2002as well as in an Italian-language television series starring Luca ZingarettiAndrea Camilleri's sly and witty series "breathes out the sense of place and the sense of humor that fills the air of Sicily" (Donna Leon).
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