A collection of eight ingenious short stories following Inspector Montalbano's investigations into Sicily's murky underworld, all served with Camilleri's trademark wit, and Montalbano's typical appetite. It features stories adapted for BBC4's Inspector Montalbano series. From the title story Death at Sea in which the alleged manslaughter of an engineer upon a fishing trawler leads Inspector Montalbano to uncover an even more sinister crime, Camilleri takes his readers through eight cunning cases from the Vigàtan police files. Starting with an arson attack on a hotel which leaves the distraught owner as the chief suspect to the mysterious case of a woman who goes missing in an underpass with a million lire in her handbag, to a threat on Montalbano's own life, as an anonymous motorcyclist takes a shot at the detective. Sicilian mores, and the contents of Montalbano's fridge are described with the wit and gusto in these exquisitely crafted pieces. 294pp, fairly large print.
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