![]() ![]() The second corpse is that of an amateur theatrical director and part-time loan shark whose unique methods of auditioning local would-be actors may have motivated his killer.įor good measure, the Vigata crime scene sprouts a third case, though not a homicide. However, the situation becomes more complicated when the body vanishes and a second one appears. Ever the loyal friend, Montalbano ponders a way to “find” the corpse the next day so that they can solve the murder without reference to Mimì’s late-night activities. Instead, he runs to Montalbano, laying the problem literally at his door. It seems that Mimì Augello, his assistant detective and an incurable lady’s man, has encountered a corpse on the way out of the apartment of his latest mistress.īecause Mimì doesn’t want his wife or the woman’s husband to learn of the affair, he does not report the dead body. ![]() The book opens with Montalbano awakening to a pounding at his door in the middle of the night. He used this book to give us a brilliantly constructed mystery with much humor, new insights into his main character, and a deeper understanding of the author himself and the world of theater that he loved and in which he honed his craft. Author Andrea Camilleri, who died in 2019, was likely well aware, by the book’s completion, that death would soon become a reality. ![]() Released posthumously this past October, the book was written in 2017 but put out for translation later. ![]()
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