Rounding the Mark [Paperback]

'This sharp narrative of murder, detection and betrayal synthesises all the best elements of the past with new...'
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'...grouch who loves to eat with his hands and cannot tolerate ties...gentle farce, slick plotting and catchphrases lovingly rehearsed...' --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

'Sharp narrative of murder, detection and betrayal synthesises all the best elements of the past...'
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

The latest mystery in Camilleri's savagely funny Montalbano series --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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 a man already long buried . . . --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Andrea Camilleri is the author of many books, including his Montalbano series, which has been adapted for Italian television and translated into nine languages. He lives in Rome. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.