![]() As a reward for his help, Tano lets Montalbano in on a secret, which leads him to discovering the abandoned cave. ![]() The encounter results in a fake police shoot out, as Tano wants to be arrested so that he can gain medical help, but of course, he doesn’t want to damage his reputation by just handing himself in. The story opens with Montalbano being coerced into a meeting with notorious mobster “Tano the Greek” by Gegé Gullota, a friend of morally questionable career choices. If this sounds far too morbid and serious for you, I wouldn’t worry, Camilleri’s narration has a refreshingly humorous attitude to law enforcement which means that whilst Montalbano and his fellow officers get the job done, there is always plenty of comedy to be found within this tale. And the part where he’d explained how tabisca was made – the part in which he’d came off best – had been cut out”Īndrea Camilleri’s “The Terracotta Dog” re-introduces Inspector Montalbano as he delves into a quest to decipher the mystery of a long dead couple found in a cave, amid the criminal activity of the Sicilian Mafiosi, whilst also dealing with his own personal issues. ![]() ![]() “Montalbano scarcely recognised himself under the storm of questions from vile snake-in-the-grass journalists. ![]()
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