The snack thief
Camilleri, Andrea
The snack thief / Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli - London : Picador , 2003 - 297 p. ; 20 cm. - An Inspector Montalbano mystery .
When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano, with his keen insight into human nature, suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son is caught stealing other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But when Karima disappears, the young snack thief's life - as well as his own - is endangered when Montalbano exposes a viper's nest of government and international intrigue.
9781447235101
2012004270
Montalbano, Salvo (Fictitious character)----Fiction
Police---Italy----Fiction
Murder---Investigations----Fiction
Sicily (Italy)----Fiction
Mystery fiction
PQ4863.A3894 / E8313 2012
MYS CAM
The snack thief / Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli - London : Picador , 2003 - 297 p. ; 20 cm. - An Inspector Montalbano mystery .
When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano, with his keen insight into human nature, suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son is caught stealing other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But when Karima disappears, the young snack thief's life - as well as his own - is endangered when Montalbano exposes a viper's nest of government and international intrigue.
9781447235101
2012004270
Montalbano, Salvo (Fictitious character)----Fiction
Police---Italy----Fiction
Murder---Investigations----Fiction
Sicily (Italy)----Fiction
Mystery fiction
PQ4863.A3894 / E8313 2012
MYS CAM
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