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4/5 Pan Macmillan Country Italy, Sicily Publisher Macmillan/Picador Followed by Rounding the Mark Genres Crime Fiction, Mystery | 4/5 Goodreads Original title L'odore della notte Language Italian/Sicilian Originally published 2001 Preceded by Excursion to Tindari Translator Stephen Sartarelli | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Series Inspector Salvo Montalbano, #6 Publication date 2001 (orig.) & 2005 (Eng. trans. ) Similar Works by Andrea Camilleri, Crime Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Scent of the Night (Italian: L'odore della notte) is a 2001 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2005 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the sixth novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series.
Contents
Plot summary
Inspector Montalbano must track down a lost financial manager who seems to have absconded with all of his clients money. Along the way, he encounters a lovelorn secretary who believes her boss could do no wrong.
Trivia
The novel openly cites Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily".
References
The Scent of the Night Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA