The pyramid of mud
By: Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Contributors: Sartarelli, Stephen, 1954- translator
Edition: Center Point large print edition.
Series: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery -- [22]
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Thorndike, Maine
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781683247234
Subjects: Fiction; Murder; Investigation; Police; Italian Detective and mystery stories; Large type books; FICTION; Mystery & Detective; Traditional
Work titles: Piramide di fango
Description: "Italy's favorite detective, Inspector Montalbano, uncovers corruption and mafia ties in the world of construction and public spending when he investigates the murder of a man 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"--

On a gloomy morning in Vigàta, Giugiù Nicotra is 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: Translated from the Italian.

Originally published: Penguin Books.

Translated from the Italian.