Title: The Snack Thief
Author: Andrea Camilleri
Publisher: Picador
Publication Date: 2005
Type: Trade Paperback
Condition: New
Jacket condition: No Jacket
Edition: Reprint.
Notes: Never has Inspector Montalbanos character a unique blend of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food been more compelling than in The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house cleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other school children mid-morning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief life as well as Montalbano is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper nest of government corruption and international intrigue. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
