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Racconto autobiografico e insieme pamphlet politico, La linea della palma è anche un j'accuse sul mondo a cavallo tra vecchio e nuovo Millennio; una lunga conversazione in cui Camilleri, sollecitato dal giornalista Saverio Lodato, mette a nudo la sua esperienza di scrittore e di uomo di spettacolo, ma anche di uomo impegnato politicamente.

1870s, Sicily. Much to the displeasure of Vigàta's stubborn populace, the town has just been unified under the Kingdom of Italy. They're now in the hands of a new government they don't understand and definitely don't like. Eugenio Bortuzzi has been named prefect for Vigàta, a regional representative from the Italian government to oversee the town. But the rowdy and unruly Sicilians don't care much for this rather pompous mainlander nor the mediocre opera he's hell-bent on producing in their new municipal theater.

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....

After a hectic morning involving two rather irritating cases of mistaken identity, Inspector Montalbano finally arrives in his office ready find out what's troubling Vigàta this week. What he discovers is unnerving. A woman on her way home from work has been held up at gunpoint, chloroformed and kidnapped, but then released just hours later - unharmed and with all her possessions - into the open countryside. Later that day, Montalbano hears from Enzo, the owner of his favourite restaurant, that his niece has recently been the victim of the exact same crime.

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.

Commissario Montalbano ist schon ein bisschen überrascht, als der flüchtige Mehrfachmörder Tano u Grecu um seine Verhaftung bittet. Schließlich ist der Commissario, was diese Dinge betrifft, eher an Widerstand gewöhnt. Die Erklärung indes ist einleuchtend: Tano fürchtet seine Feinde in der Mafia mehr als die Polizei - mit Recht, wie sich herausstellt, denn wenig später wird er ermordet. Was zunächst aussieht wie ein typisches Verbrechen der Mafia, entwickelt sich zu einem komplizierten Fall, als Montalbano bei seinen Nachforschungen auf ein weiteres, bereits fünfzig Jahre zurückliegendes Verbrechen stößt.

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.

Maybe a phrase, a line, a hint somewhere would reveal a reason, any reason, for the elderly couple's disappearance. They'd saved everything.... There was even a copy of the 'certificate of living existence', that nadir of bureaucratic imbecility.... What was the protocol, to use a word dear to government offices? Did one simply write on a sheet of paper something like 'I, the undersigned, Salvo Montalbano, hereby declare myself to be in existence', sign it, and turn it in to the appointed clerk?

Vor der Südküste Siziliens wird während einer nächtlichen Ausfahrt ein Fischer auf seinem Boot erschossen. Kurz darauf findet man den Geschäftsmann Lapecora erstochen im Aufzug seines Wohnhauses im Küstenstädtchen Vigàta auf. Zwei Morde ohne jeden Zusammenhang, so scheint es. Bis Commissario Montalbano einen jugendlichen Dieb auf frischer Tat ertappt, der ihn auf die Spur der geheimnisvollen Schönheit Karima bringt.

When an angry octogenarian holds a terrified and lovelorn secretary at gunpoint, Inspector Montalbano is reluctantly drawn into the case. The secretary's boss, a financial advisor, has vanished along with several billion lire entrusted to him by the good citizens of Vigàta. Also missing is the advisor's young colleague, whose uncle just happens to be building a house on the site of Inspector Montalbano's very favourite olive tree….

Nachdem Commissario Montalbano eine Schussverletzung auskuriert hat, kann er es kaum erwarten, sein gewohntes Leben wieder aufzunehmen. Sein nächster Fall, die mysteriöse Entführung einer jungen Studentin, gibt ihm jedoch so manches Rätsel auf: Zu viele Details passen nicht zusammen, die Aussagen der Zeugen widersprechen sich. Doch das Netz der Verwirrungen, das hier ausgelegt wurde, scheint undurchdringbar und der stille Rächer geduldig genug, um in aller Ruhe abzuwarten, bis sein Opfer in die verhängnisvolle Falle tappt.

When a crazed elderly man and his sister begin firing bullets from their balcony down onto the Vigàta street below, Inspector Montalbano finds himself a reluctant television hero. A few days later, when a letter arrives containing a mysterious riddle, the Inspector becomes drawn into a perplexing treasure hunt set by an anonymous challenger. As the hunt intensifies, Montalbano is relieved to be offered the assistance of Arturo Pennisi, a young man eager to witness the detective's investigative skills firsthand.

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.

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.

It's been raining for days in Vigàta, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved hometown, sweeping across the land and leaving only a sea of mud behind. It is on one of these endless grey days that a man - a Mr Giuglù Nicotra - is found dead. His body discovered in a large sewage tunnel, half naked and with a bullet in his back.

Motionless, Montalbano waited for the surf to enter his brain and wash it clean with each breaker. At last the first light wave came like a caress, swiiissshhh, and carried away, glugluglug, Elena Sclafani and her beauty while Michela Pardo's tits, belly, arched body and eyes likewise disappeared. Once Montalbano the man was erased, all that should remain was Inspector Montalbano - a kind of abstract function of the person who was supposed to solve the case and nothing more, with no personal feelings involved.

The crew of a mysterious yacht - the Vanna - due to dock in the area have discovered a corpse floating in the water, the dead man's face badly disfigured. It isn't long before Montalbano begins to become suspicious of the Vanna's inhabitants. Who is the yacht's owner, the glamorous and short-tempered Livia Giovannini? How has she accrued her riches? And why does she spend so much time at sea?

Commissario Salvo Montalbano aus Sizilien ist der Star unter den Mordkommissaren der internationalen Krimiliteratur: ein liebenswerter Eigenbrötler mit einer Vorliebe für schöne Frauen und gutes Essen. Aber auch jemand, der "seine" Sizilianer kennt und mit südlicher Nonchalance und nüchternem Realitätssinn die vertracktesten Fälle löst - und deshalb schon bald das raffiniert inszenierte Spiel um den Fall Luparello durchschaut... Commissario Montalbano löst seinen ersten Fall. Nach dem Tod von Bodo Wolf wird der Sprecher Hans Jürgen Stockerl die Montalbano-Reihe fortführen.

Sizilien, erzählt vom Sizilianer Camillieri: Der Dorfpolizist soll eine Prostituierte in Gewahrsam nehmen und nimmt sie stattdessen zur Frau. Von Puppenspielen und Kinobesuchen ist die Rede, von anarchistischen Hutmachern, streikenden Hafenarbeitern und strengen Müttern. Lauter Menschen, die sich anders benehmen, als es vom Staat und seinen Erziehern vorgesehen ist. Auch Leonardo Sciascia und Luigi Pirandello treten auf und bestätigen Camilleris Weltsicht: Auf Sizilien ist alles anders.