The pyramid of mud
By: Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Contributors: Sartarelli, Stephen, 1954- translator
Series: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translation of: La piramide di fango
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780143128083
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Construction industry; Italian Detective and mystery stories; Investigation; Corrupt practices; Murder; Fiction
Work titles: Piramide di fango
First sentence: The thunderclap was so loud that not only did Montalbano suddenly wake up in terror, but he gave such a start that he nearly fell out of bed.
Description: 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.
Notes: English translation of: La pirmaide di fango. Palermo: Sellerio Editore, ©2014.