229 pages
English language
Published Nov. 29, 2005 by Penguin (Non-Classics).
229 pages
English language
Published Nov. 29, 2005 by Penguin (Non-Classics).
Half the retirees in Vigata have invested their savings with a financial wizard who disappears with their money. As Montalbano investigates, a hostile superior shuts him out of the case, he's on the outs with his lover Livia, and Sicily is turning so ruthless and vulgar he wonders if any part of it is worth saving.