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In Inspector Montalbano’s coastal town of Vigàta, a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat, and all the town’s hands are on deck to help the arrivals. At the heart of the scene are the police - on the lookout for the people smugglers responsible - and long night shifts are rendering Inspector Montalbano and his officers exhausted. Then one night, while Montalbano is enduring yet another gruelling stint at the port, a separate crime is committed - unexplained, unexpected, and unpleasant. Elena, the dressmaker at the town’s famous tailors, has been found dead....

Lo zoo personale di Andrea Camilleri è fatto di animali e di storie che entreranno nella nostra vita per sempre. Sono ritratti en plein air: impossibile ascoltarli e vederli senza sentire dentro qualcosa di fortissimo, perché sono pieni di affetto, confondono il confine tra la coscienza umana e quella degli animali e sono sempre a favore di questi ultimi, nel senso di un'armonia della vita solo nel rispetto di tutte le specie viventi.

Das beschauliche Städtchen Vigàta auf Sizilien ist in Aufruhr, und ein Besuch des Innenministers steht bevor. Für Commissario Montalbano ein guter Grund, sich an diesem Tag zurückzuziehen und eine Vernissage zu besuchen. Die schöne Galeristin Marian ist mindestens so reizvoll wie die Exponate - und sie gibt Montalbano diverse Rätsel auf. Wie auch der Überfall auf die Ehefrau eines vermögenden Vigàteser Kaufmanns, der einen mysteriösen Mord nach sich zieht.

Ein heftiger Regenschauer reißt Commissario Montalbano aus einem wohligen Traum, in dem er mit seiner Verlobten Livia sorglos durch einen paradiesischen Wald wandelte. Auch im Kommissariat von Vigàta zeigt sich der Tag in aller Nüchternheit: Der angesehene Buchhalter Cosimo Barletta wurde tot in seiner Strandvilla aufgefunden. Die Ermittlungen lassen abgründige Familiengeheimnisse ahnen, und Montalbano fühlt sich schon bald an ein furioses Schlangennest erinnert.

Things are not going well for Inspector Montalbano. His long-distance relationship with Livia is on the rocks, he feels himself getting even older and he's growing tired of the violence in his job. Then the dead body of a young woman is found in an illegal dump, with half her face missing. Her identity at first is unknown; a tattoo of a sphinx moth on her left shoulder links her with three other girls bearing the same mark, all recent Russian immigrants to Italy.

Inspector Montalbano is awake at dawn, sitting on his porch, when his attention is caught by a seagull that falls from the sky, performing a strange dance, before lying down to die. Montalbano is perplexed by what he has witnessed and the scene hangs over him like an omen. About to depart for a holiday with his girlfriend Livia, Montalbano makes a quick trip to the police station to tie up loose ends. But when his dear colleague Fazio is discovered missing, Montalbano instead launches a desperate search for his lost friend....

En este breve pero intenso texto –hasta ahora inédito en castellano–, el maestro siciliano se convierte en Tiresias y se sumerge en su mito para revelar la verdadera esencia del adivino ciego. Entregado a esa narración viva y carismática tan propia de toda su extensa obra, Camilleri repasa en estas páginas héroes y dioses, escritores y personajes literarios, hila el pasado con el presente y, como Tiresias, escudriña el futuro con sus mirada al mismo tiempo ciega y clarividente.

Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigàta at that time. Meanwhile, Montalbano is grappling with a double mystery, one that emerges from the past and another that leads him into the future.

Two deaths - the suicide of a recently fired worker and the murder of an unscrupulous businessman - lead Inspector Montalbano to the Halcyon, a mysterious ship that visits Vigàta's port each day. With very few crewmen, no passengers and a stern large enough to land a helicopter, it piques the Inspector's interest straight away. And whilst all this is going on, a rare trip to Genoa to visit Livia ends with the Vigàta police department in disarray, and Inspector Montalbano's position as the head of the commissariat in jeopardy. It will be up to Montalbano to fix the damage done.

On what should be a quiet Sunday morning, Inspector Montalbano is called to a murder scene on the Sicilian coast. A man has discovered his father dead in his Vigàtan beach house: his body slumped on the dining room floor, his morning coffee spilt across the table, and a single gunshot wound at the base of his skull.

Feeling his age as his birthday rolls round once again, Inspector Montalbano decides to cheer himself up by dealing with a young driver's road rage in his own unique way. But his joy is short-lived, as at police headquarters he receives an angry phone call from a supermarket boss; there's been a robbery at his store, and Montalbano's colleague is treating him as a suspect. On arrival at the scene, Montalbano quickly agrees with Inspector Augello that this was no ordinary break-in.

The lazy, slow month of August at the height of the Sicilian summer is, Inspector Montalbano assures his girlfriend, Livia, as they prepare for a relaxing holiday in a villa he has found for them, far too hot for any murders to be committed. But when Livia's friends' young son goes missing, a chain of events is sparked which will certainly ruin the Chief Inspector's pleasant interlude. A secret apartment and a grisly find in an old trunk are just the beginning as Montalbano navigates his way though the case and copes with the sweltering heat.

Primero de un ciclo de cuatro volúmenes de relatos ambientados en el imaginario pueblo siciliano de Vigàta, también escenario de las aventuras del célebre comisario Montalbano, este libro recoge ocho historias tan perfectas que cada una puede leerse como una pequeña novela.

Zwei mysteriöse Bombenattentate bereiten Commissario Montalbano ebenso Kopfzerbrechen wie seine neuen Nachbarn in Marinella: Liliana Lombardo kreuzt beinahe jeden seiner Wege, ihr Ehemann ist nie zu sehen. Weitere mafiöse Vorfälle und nächtliche Rendezvous der Signora mit dubiosen Galanen lassen einen Zusammenhang mit den Attentaten erahnen.

Inspector Montalbano rises one morning to find the carcass of a horse on the beach in front of his seaside home. But no sooner do his men arrive than the body has mysteriously vanished, leaving only a track in the sand. Before long Rachele, a beguiling equestrian champion, turns up at police headquarters to report her horse missing. The horse had been stabled at the grounds of a certain Saverio Lo Duca, one of the richest men in Sicily. Lo Duca has lost one of his own horses, too. Montalbano, his curiosity piqued, investigates....

Chief Inspector Montalbano is on enforced sick leave. But when a local girl goes mysteriously missing, the whole community takes an interest in the case. Why are the kidnappers so sure that the girl's impoverished father and dying mother will be able to find a fortune? The ever-inquisitive Montalbano steps in, to get to the heart of the matter in his own inimitable style.

Der Todestanz einer Möwe als Vorbote düsterer Ereignisse? Leider nur zu wahr, denn kurze Zeit später erreicht Commissario Montalbano die Nachricht vom Verschwinden Fazios, seines wichtigsten Mitarbeiters im Polizeikommissariat. Offenbar war Fazio in einen Hinterhalt geraten - mit bisher unbekanntem Ausgang. Die Ermittlungen führen Montalbano ins abgelegene Ödland der Mafia, wo ihm zwei namenlose Tote Rätsel aufgeben.

Im sizilianischen Vigàta verschwindet die Geldkassette eines Supermarkts, der von der Mafia kontrolliert wird. Tags darauf findet man den Geschäftsführer erhängt. In einem Apartment wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau aufgefunden. Ihr Liebhaber hat ein wasserdichtes Alibi und ist der Sohn des regionalen Provinzpräsidenten. Während der Polizeipräsident angesichts brisanter Ermittlungsergebnisse einen politischen Skandal befürchtet, hat Commissario Montalbano keine Bedenken, erbarmungslose Täter mit seinen ganz eigenen Methoden in die Falle zu locken.

Ein greises Geschwisterpaar in religiösem Wahn, das Schüsse abfeuert, sobald jemand sich der Wohnung nähert. Eine massakrierte Gummipuppe, die Rätsel aufgibt - umso mehr, als sich in einem anderen Viertel Vigàtas eine zweite Puppe mit denselben Blessuren findet. Anonyme Botschaften in Reimform, die im Kommissariat eingehen. Commissario Montalbano ahnt schon bald, dass ein weit zurückliegender Fall erneut ans Tageslicht gerückt ist: das mysteriöse Verschwinden eines Mädchens, dessen Leiche nie gefunden wurde.

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.