The Snack Thief

by Andrea Camilleri

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Series (with order)

Inspector Montalbano Mysteries (3)

Canonical Title

The snack thief

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2003 (English: Sartarelli)

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Salvo Montalbano

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He woke up in a bad way.
(translated by Stephen Sartarelli, 2003)

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0330492977, Paperback)

Never has Inspector Montalbano's signature mix of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food been more compelling than in The Snack Thief.

When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano, with his keen insight into human nature, suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son is caught stealing other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But when Karima disappears, the young snack thief's life-as well as his own-is endangered when Montalbano exposes a viper's nest of government and international intrigue.

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