The Terra-Cotta Dog
352 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1996
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ISBN: 9780142004722
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: 31 May 2005
Description
The Terra-Cotta 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 mountainous cave where two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, are watched over by a life-size terra cotta 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.'
