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Inertia, complete motionlessness at the police station in Vigata; endless boredom. Montalbano reads a novel by Simenon and absentmindedly browses through old issues of the magazine Doménica del Corriere, as the endless and exhausting phone calls with his sensitive fiancée continue, who is far away, drifting further away.
Yet there was a change. Two elderly believers, a brother and sister, who through their sole engagement with prayers and the church were driven to madness. Their insanity turned them into fanatics with weapons.
However, the holy patroness of the police left behind an object of passion at the crime scene, sad and damaged; a plastic inflatable doll, worn out from use, one of those wedding dolls that (as Ganda used to say) ‘you kiss, you weep in their embrace, and you are free to imagine whatever you wish. And after giving the kisses, you clean it, deflate it, fold it, and put it away, like a freshly ironed shirt’.
Another identical inflatable doll, just as worn out, which at first was confused with the corpse of a mutilated girl, was found in a garbage bin on Brancati Street...
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- Author
- Andrea Camilleri
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Original Title
- La caccia al tesoro
- Publishers
- Patakis
- Type
- Crime
- Subtitle
- A case for Inspector Montalbano
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 317
- Release Date
- 6/2013
- Publication Date
- 2013
- Dimensions
- 12x17 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789601649764
Additional Specifications
- Series
- Inspector Montalbano
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