- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Viking Books (April 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670032239
- ISBN-13: 978-0670032235
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.6 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,255,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic, engaging take on Sicilian small-town life and his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of crimes. The Terracotta Dog opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, are watched over by a life-size terracotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the island's past and into a family's dark heart amid the horrors of World War II. With sly wit and a keen understanding of human nature, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness, compassion, and intelligence make him totally irresistible.
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Never has Inspector Montalbano’s character – a unique blend 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 Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house cleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other school children’s mid-morning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief’s life – as well as Montalbano’s – is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper’s nest of government corruption and international intrigue.
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
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By Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 110,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: The Snack Thief (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries) (Paperback)
The Snack Thief is a worthy successor to the remarkable police procedural, The Terra-Cotta Dog. Although few books could hope to match The Terra-Cotta Dog for plotting, The Snack Thief provides a more than adequate set of mysteries to keep the reader intrigued and delighted. The best feature of The Snack Thief though is much greater character development for the protagonist, Inspector Montalbano, and his girl friend Livia.If you have not read other books in this series, I strongly urge you to read The Shape of Water and The Terra-Cotta Dog first. They will provide background on the characters that will add much to your enjoyment of The Snack Thief. As the book begins, we see another side of the cheerful, capable Inspector Montalbano. He's having trouble sleeping when the police station's resident idiot, the telephone operator Catarella, calls with a nonsensical message about a death. Montalbano hangs up and unplugs the phone, ignoring the message. When Montalbano finally makes it into the station, he finds that almost everyone has left to deal with the death of a Tunisian on an Italian fishing vessel that has come into Vigata. The Tunisian was killed by a warning shot from a Tunisian patrol vessel. Montalbano is glad to have avoided this political hot potato when another death is called in. Someone has found a man dead in an elevator. Montalbano rejoices in being able to use this new death to avoid the first case and its inevitable complications. But can he escape handling that other case? The police procedural aspects of this case are particularly rewarding. Inspector Montalbano works through all of the obvious details such as what floor was the elevator on before . . . and just keeps turning up new mysteries. The dead man has been going to the office of his business three days a week, even though he does no business there. Could it have anything to do with his attractive "cleaning" lady? As Inspector Montalbano learns more about the victim and his business, more mysteries keep appearing. Someone is stealing food from children on their way to school. Montalbano soon has every available officer out searching for the snack thief. Why? The solutions to the mysteries ultimate rely on remembering coincidences. It's a wonderful application of Occam's Razor. The best part for me of this story came from the development of Montalbano's relationship with his girl friend, Livia. He cannot live with her . . . or without her. What will he do? The book has the usual humorous side trips into Inspector Montalbano's love of food. Be sure to read the end notes to understand all about the dishes and the Italian history references. I especially enjoyed the way that the story was resolved, as Inspector Montalbano blackmails the "hidden hand" behind the crimes to provide for an innocent. The book reminded me of how important it is that we seek ways to help those who are powerless to help themselves.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Inspector Montalbano versus terrorists and secret,
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This review is from: The Snack Thief (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery) (Paperback)
When an elderly man is murdered in the elevator and a Tunesian fisherman is shot at sea, these events at first instance do not seem to be connected. But clever investigation work by inspector Montalbano reveals that there is a connection and the mother of a 5-year old boy plays a crucial role in this. When the mother disappears the girlfriend of the inspectors takes care of the little boy and a promise made to the boy forces the inspector to reconsider his position as a bachelor. In the meantime the investigation turns nastier and nastier and the people involved go higher up than one would care.This is the third Camilleri book in succession that I read and I still enjoy the ambiance, the inspector and the descriptions of food and the good (and bad) life in Sicily.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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The Mystery of the Tunisian Housekeeper,
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This review is from: The Snack Thief (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries) (Paperback)
The is hugely popular (in Europe anyway) Inspector Montalbano series continues, with this installment following The Shape of Water and The Terra-Cotta Dog. The presence of Tunisian immigrants in Sicily is mined for mystery by Camilleri, as the stabbing of a retired businessman and the shooting of a Tunisian crewman on a fishing boat soon merge to one very tangled web. At the heart of it all is a missing housecleaner/prostitute names Karima and her son. As might be expected, there's some corruption just below the surface and Montalbano pursues justice with the quiet, dogged persistence and lengthy lunch breaks of his earlier two adventures. The intrigue is perhaps a little less intriguing than in the previous books, but there's more going on in Montalbano's private life to make up for it. Girlfriend Livia puts in a long appearance making the Inspector edgier and nastier than usual. It's roughly on par with the previous two books, but being the third book in the series, doesn't seem quite as fresh. As usual, the translation by Stephen Sartarelli is top notch.
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