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When two employees of the splendour refuse collection company discover the body of engineer silvio luparello, one of the local. Montalbanos first case by andrea camilleri novella 2005. The patience of the spider the inspector montalbano. His books have been made into television shows in italy and translated into thirtytwo languages. The overnight kidnapper is the 23rd book in the series and by this stage camilleri had no. The next time i do it, im sure i can skip this one. We currently have 3359 authors listed on the site and 2719 charactersseries with more added each day. Main character in the series written by italian author andrea camilleri, inspector montalbano is a sicilian detective in the police force of vigata. The overnight kidnapper by andrea camilleri, translated from the italian by stephen sartarelli.
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