"The Scent of the Night" is the sixth comic detective novel in the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri. Montalbano learns how difficult it is to put on a wetsuit while in a dinghy speeding over a sea that isn't exactly calm. Mimi, at the helm, looks tense and worried.

When an angry octogenarian holds a terrified and lovelorn secretary at gunpoint, Inspector Montalbano is reluctantly drawn into the case. The secretary's boss, a financial advisor, has vanished along with several billion lire entrusted to him by the good citizens of Vigata. Also missing is the advisor's young colleague, whose uncle just happens to be building a house on the site of Inspector Montalbano's very favorite olive tree . . .

Able to assist him are his loyal and eccentric team, Montalbano, the food-loving, commitment-phobic inspector, returns for another delicious investigation served up in vintage Camilleri style. "The Scent of the Night" is followed by the seventh book in the series, "Rounding the Mark."

Author: Andrea Camilleri-Stephen Sartarelli

Language: ENGLISH

Pages: 240

Dimensions: 197X129X15

Year of publication: 2007