The Snack Thief (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrea Camilleri
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Fictional small towns along Sicily’s southwest coast
- Principal Characters: Salvo Montalbano, Livia Burlando, Cat Catarella, Mimì Augello, Fazio, Jacomuzzi, Buscaìno, Vice-Commissioner Valente, The Commissioner, Aurelio Lapècora, Antonietta Palmisano Lapècora, Antonino Lapècora, Ahmed “Ben Dhahab” Moussa, Karima Moussa, François Moussa, Fahrid, Clementina Vasile Cozza, Aisha, Master Rahman, Angelo Prestìa, Adelina
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature, Translation, Novel
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Marriage, Islands, Detectives, Assassination, Food, Small-town life, Corruption, Government, 1990’s, Italy or Italians, Western Europe or western Europeans, Dating, Eating customs
- Locales: Fictional locale
The Snack Thief is the third mystery novel in Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series to be translated into English. Translated in the order they were first published, the two previous novels are La forma dell’acqua (1994; The Shape of Water, 2002) and Il cane di terracotta (1996; The Terra-Cotta Dog, 2002). Presumably, several other novels and short-fiction collections in the series will be forthcoming in English. Besides the Inspector Montalbano series, Camilleri has published a dozen or so other novels and for many years was a director...
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