The pyramid of mud, Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli
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The pyramid of mud, Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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novels
Main title
The pyramid of mud
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982044041
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Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Summary
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
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- Murder + Investigation -- Fiction
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- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Italy -- Fiction
- Murder + Investigation
- FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
- Montalbano, Salvo, (Fictitious character)
- Construction industry + Corrupt practices
- Mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery stories, Italian
- Italy
- Construction industry + Corrupt practices -- Fiction
- Montalbano, Salvo, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
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- Novels
- Murder + Investigation -- Fiction
- Fiction
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Italy -- Fiction
- Murder + Investigation
- FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
- Montalbano, Salvo, (Fictitious character)
- Construction industry + Corrupt practices
- Mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery stories, Italian
- Italy
- Construction industry + Corrupt practices -- Fiction
- Montalbano, Salvo, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
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