The Smell of the Night (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery)
Contributors: Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: November 29, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780143036203
First sentence: The shutter outside the wide-open window slammed so hard against the wall that it sounded like a gunshot.
Description: A "financial wizard," entrusted with retirees' savings, mysteriously disappears with the money. Shut out of the investigation, Montalbano is forced to work from the shadows in order to solve the mystery.