Excursion To Tindari

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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 & turn it in to the appointed clerk? A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning & an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari -- two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police headquarters. But when Montalbano discovers that the couple & the murdered young man lived in the same building his investigation stumbles onto Sicily's brutal ' New Mafia' which leads him down a path more evil & more far-reaching than any he has been down before. Praise for Andrea Camilleri: 'A joy to read' The Times ' This savagely funny police procedural proves that sardonic laughter is a sound that translates ever so smoothly into English' New York Times