A collection of eight imaginative stories following Inspector Montalbano's investigations in the dark world of Sicily, served with Camilleri's characteristic humor and Montalbano's classic appetite. Includes stories adapted for BBC4’s Inspector Montalbano, this is the ideal starting point to begin reading Sicily's favorite crime writer. From the title story, Death at Sea, where the alleged death of an engineer on a fishing boat leads Inspector Montalbano to uncover an even darker crime, Andrea Camilleri guides readers through eight cunning cases from the Vigàta police files. It starts with an arson attack at a hotel, where the disgruntled owner is the main suspect, to the mysterious case of a woman who disappears in an underpass with a million lire in her bag, to a threat to Montalbano's life, as an anonymous driver shoots at the detective.