Rounding the Mark (Inspector Montalbano mysteries) - Hardcover

Andrea Camilleri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330442198 ISBN 13: 9780330442190

Publisher: Picador, 2007

Synopsis

He began swimming in slow, broad strokes. The sea smelled harsh, stinging his nostrils like champagne, and he nearly got drunk on it . . . In a fraction of a second, Montalbano realized he’d struck a human foot. Somebody else was floating right beside him, and he hadn’t noticed. “Excuse me,” he said hastily, flipping back onto his belly and looking over at the other. The person beside him didn’t answer, because he wasn’t doing the dead man’s float. He was actually dead. And, to judge from the way he looked, he’d been so for quite a while.

Increasingly disillusioned with his government and the world in general, Inspector Montalbano is considering retirement. He is starting to feel his age, and even his favourite restaurant has closed. But when he bumps into a dead body during a bracing swim, his detective instincts are aroused once more. Particularly when the most likely identity of the victim is that of a man already long buried . . .

‘Both farcical and endearing, Montalbano is a cross between Columbo and Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, with the added culinary idiosyncrasies of an Italian Maigret’ Guardian

About this title

Review:

Peppered with comments on Italian life, politics and the media, his stories are not only a joy to read, but also literary works in their own right. --New Statesman

Camilleri has created such a realistic and likeable hero that his books are both instructive and enjoyable; and the Sicilian setting is fascinating. Technically this is a police procedural; actually, it is an insightful psychological study of a good man in a deviant world. --Literary Review

Book Description:

The seventh mystery in Camilleri's engagingly witty Montalbano series

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0330442198
• ISBN 13: 9780330442190
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350