The Pyramid of Mud (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery)

Synopsis

On A Gloomy Morning In Vigàta, A Call From Fazio Rouses Inspector Montalbano From A Nightmare. A Man Called Giugiù Nicotra Has Been Found Dead In The Skeletal Workings Of A Construction Site--a Place Now Entombed By A Sea Of Mud From Recent Days Of Rain And Floods. Shot In The Back, He Had Fled Into A Water Supply System Tunnel. The Investigation Gets Off To A Slow Start, But All The Evidence Points To The World Of Construction And Public Contracts, A World Just As Slimy And Impenetrable As Mud. As He Wades Through A World In Which Construction Firms And Public Officials Thrive, Montalbano Is Obsessed By One Thought: That By Going To Die In The Tunnel, Nicotra Had Been Trying To Communicate Something. Andrea Camilleri ; Translated By Stephen Sartarelli. English Translation Of: La Pirmaide Di Fango. Palermo: Sellerio Editore, ©2014. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.