Sicilian Method

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Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli: Sicilian Method (2020, Pan Macmillan)

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Język English

Opublikowane 11 maja 2020 przez Pan Macmillan.

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978-1-5290-3560-5
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Augello finds a body, then it disappears, but in the meantime another body shows up. Montalbano finds a body too, but this one's alive, and causes him much more trouble than the corpses.

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recenzuje The Sicilian Method autorstwa Andrea Camilleri (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery, #26)

The Sicilian Method

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In The Voice of the Violin Montalbano becomes interested in a seemingly abandoned car. Frustrated in his attempts to learn more, he pulls a black-bag job, finds a corpse, and the story’s off and running. In The Sicilian Method it’s Auguello’s try at this bit, but, keeping in character, he’s fleeing a cuckold, out the window and down into the apartment below. Auguello’s body disappears, but is replaced with another, this time of a theatrical impresario/director and loan shark, and it stays around so Montalbano and crew can get some detecting done.

In every Montalbano story there’s a short bit, half a page or so, that I think of as the Three Stooges Bit, some slapstick between Montalbano and whomever’s around at the time (there’s probably a more dignified Italian term for it, perhaps opera buffa or commedia dell’arte). Here the bit’s slathered on all over the place, particularly …

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  • Romance literature