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The pyramid of mud / Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli.

ISBN: 9780143128083 (paperback) :
Physical Description: 256 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2018.
Copyright: &copy;2018.

Camilleri, Andrea, (author.). Sartarelli, Stephen, 1954- (translator.).

Summary:

"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."--Provided by the publisher.