Description
| Product ID: | 9781529042047 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Inspector Montalbano mysteries |
| Title: | The Terracotta Dog |
| Authors: | Author: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The second novel in Camilleri's savagely funny Sicilian crime series. <p><b>Set in Sicily, <i>The Terracotta Dog</i> is the second novel in the </b><b>humorous</b><b> Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri.</b><br><br><b>*Adapted for BBC4's <i>Inspector Montalbano</i> series*</b><br><br>After a cloak and dagger exchange with an ageing Mafioso, Inspector Montalbano is left haunted by the man’s dying words, which lead him to a mountainside just west of Vigàta where he unearths two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-size terracotta dog.<br><br>Heedless of personal danger, Montalbano’s drive to solve this old crime forces him on a journey through Sicily’s World War II history and to the dark heart of one family . . .<br><br><b><i>The Terracotta Dog</i> is followed by the third title in this satirical series, <i>The Snack Thief</i>.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-08-20 |
