An exclusive selection of Andrea Camilleri titles was translated into
English. Alas it is only the (rather incomplete) Montalbano series
which comes down to the anglophone reader.
The even more interesting other novels and short stories are only
available in Italian and German, the latter containing an almost complete
list of his oeuvre. {For a complete compilation of all available
german titles on amazon.de click
here}
Find below a complete list of what is currently available concerning
Andrea Camilleri on amazon - world's biggest online bookseller:
The Smell of the Night by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)
The number of Inspector Montalbano fans will
continue to grow with this ingenious new novel featuring the earthy
and urbane Sicilian detective. Half the retirees in Vig`ata have
invested their savings with a financial wizard who has disappeared,
along with their money. As Montalbano investigates this labyrinthine
financial scam, he finds himself at a serious disadvantage: a
hostile superior has shut him out of the case, he’s on the outs
with his lover Livia, and his cherished Sicily is turning so
ruthless and vulgar that Montalbano wonders if any part of it is
worth saving. Drenched with atmosphere, crackling with wit, The
Smell of the Night is Camilleri at his most addictive.
The Excursion to Tindari (Wheeler
Large Print Book Series) by Andrea Camilleri
Hardcover: 366 pages
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing; Largeprint edition (August 15, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN: 159722040X
Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces.
Book Description
Following the long-running success he has enjoyed on bestseller
lists in Europe, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is now winning over
American readers and critics alike as "one of the most engaging
protagonists in detective fiction" (USA Today). Now, in
Excursion to Tindari, Andrea Camilleri’s savvy and darkly comic
take on Sicilian life leads Montalbano into his most bone- chilling
case yet.
In two seemingly unrelated crimes, a young Don Juan is found
murdered and an elderly couple is reported missing after an
excursion to the ancient site of Tindari. As Montalbano works to
solve both cases, he stumbles onto Sicily’s ghastly "new
age" of brutal and anonymous criminality.
About the Author
Andrea Camilleri is the author of many books, including the
Montalbano series, which has been translated into eight languages.
Stephen Sartarelli is a poet and translator.
The Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri
Hardcover
Publisher: Pan MacMillan (July 31, 2005)
ISBN: 0330492985
In his fourth mystery to feature Inspector Salvo
Montalbano (The Snack Thief, etc.), Camilleri once again thrills
with his fluid storytelling and quirky characters. The irritable
Sicilian detective's first challenge is to figure out a way to start
an investigation into the murder of a woman whose naked body he
discovered through an unauthorized break-in, without letting it be
known that he was the one who found her. The long list of suspects
includes the woman's husband, who's seemingly unaffected by the news
of her death; the neighborhood half-wit, who would charitably be
described as an admirer but more appropriately as a stalker; and the
woman's out-of-town lover, who has a cryptic background of his own.
Salvo is as incapable of turning his back on the mystery as he is at
playing politics, and he soon finds himself in trouble with his
superiors and the patsy for an ambitious colleague. Perhaps because
the crime itself is less intricate than those in earlier books in
the series, the author has increased the stakes for Salvo's career
and the amount of maverick behavior. Through this deft translation,
Camilleri's tale of lust, greed and hidden beauty should win new
American readers.
Voice Of The Violin (Wheeler Large
Print Book Series) by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)
Paperback: 311 pages
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing; Largeprint edition (February 16,
2005)
Language: English
ISBN: 158724635X
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces.
Customer Review:
When the police car of Inspector Montalbano hits a small car parked
at an apparently deserted country home, the inspector has a gut
feeling that something is wrong. He finds the body of a beautiful
woman, strangled in her bedroom. After a short while it turns out
that the woman has numerous acquaintances in the area and that there
are a fair number of suspects. The investigation is not made any
easier by the fact that Montalbano's superiors are not exactly
supporting him, even though his own team is squarely behind him. A
combination of good policework and flashes of brilliance in the end
solves the crime. In the meantime Montalbano also has to sort out
the mess that he is making of his private life. And that is the nice
thing about this series: it is the combination of police work and
private hassles, that make Montalbano into more than your average,
typical policeman-from-a-novel, but rather a real character with his
good and his bad sides.
Excursion to Tindari: An Inspector
Montalbano Mystery by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (February 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN: 014303460X
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.4 ounces.
Following the long-running success he has enjoyed on bestseller
lists in Europe, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is now winning over
American readers and critics alike as "one of the most engaging
protagonists in detective fiction" (USA Today). Now, in
Excursion to Tindari, Andrea Camilleri’s savvy and darkly comic
take on Sicilian life leads Montalbano into his most bone- chilling
case yet.
In two seemingly unrelated crimes, a young Don Juan is found
murdered and an elderly couple is reported missing after an
excursion to the ancient site of Tindari. As Montalbano works to
solve both cases, he stumbles onto Sicily’s ghastly "new
age" of brutal and anonymous criminality.
Voice of the Violin (Inspector
Montalbano Mysteries)
by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Reprint edition (June 29, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN: 0142004456
Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces.
Just last year, when the first Inspector Montalbano
mystery (The Shape of Water) made its belated appearance in the
U.S., we asked that the translations keep coming--and quickly. Our
wish has been granted. This is the fourth in the series to be
published here in a mere 18 months, and it is every bit as good as
the previous three. This time the doggedly anti-bureaucratic
Montalbano, police inspector in the picturesque Sicilian city of
Vigata, stumbles upon the dead body of an attractive woman from
Bologna and must re-create her last hours in an effort to find the
killer. As usual, Montalbano finds himself appalled not only by the
callousness of the killer but also by the insufferable
small-mindedness of his superiors. Camilleri continues to mix
procedural detail with personal drama--Montalbano's tenuous
relationship with his lover and his attraction to one of the
witnesses in the case--in ways that add depth to both the characters
and the drama. If you like the Italian crime novel, you'll love this
series.
The Terracotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri
Hardcover
Publisher: Pan MacMillan (January 31, 2004)
ISBN: 033049290X
Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garnered
millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic, engaging take on
Sicilian life and his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of
crimes.
The Terra-cotta Dog opens with the inspector's mysterious
tête-à-tête with a mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from
a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal
arms cache in a mountain cave. There, in a secret grotto, he finds a
harrowing scene: two young lovers, dead fifty years and still
embracing, watched over by a life-size terra-cotta dog. Montalbano's
passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal
danger, on a journey through the island's past and into a family's
dark heart amid the horrors of World War II bombardment.
From sly comedy at the expense of his fellow policemen to
personal soul searching that helps him enter the minds of those he
must investigate, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness and
imagination coalesce into a unique, unfailing appeal. AUTHORBIO:
Andrea Camilleri is the author of many books, including his
Montalbano series, which has been adapted for Italian television and
translated into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek,
Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish.
The Terra-Cotta Dog: An Inspector
Montalbano Mystery (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)
by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli
A deep evocation of the Sicilian temperament, with all its
complex darkness and ambiguity, is embodied in Inspector Salvo
Montalbano of the fictive town of Vigata, in Sicily. Camilleri
writes in Sicilian dialect, and his translator has expertly captured
the rhythms and nuances of that tongue in English. Good thing: the
Mafia is indeed a presence here, and Montalbano unravels a very odd
supermarket heist with the goods left abandoned in plain view, but
that isn't the heart of the story. The groceries are only a front
for guns, and in the ancient cave where they are discovered, the
inspector finds the bodies of two very young lovers, dead since
World War II, and carefully arranged with coins, a water jug, and
the faithful dog of the title. Montalbano applies his considerable
intellectual and literary gifts to this second mystery, mightily
irritating his housekeeper, his girlfriend, and his colleagues while
interviewing a cast of characters odd even by Sicilian standards.
There are dreams and portents, semiotics and deceptions, and the
violent ghosts of the war and the Mob, some not nearly dead yet.
The Snack Thief (Inspector
Montalbano Mysteries) by Andrea Camilleri
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (November 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN: 0142003492
Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces.
In his third Inspector Salvo Montalbano mystery to
be made available in the U.S., Camilleri (The Shape of Water)
displays all the storytelling skills that have made him an
international bestseller. When gunfire from a Tunisian patrol boat
kills a worker on an Italian fishing trawler, the worldly Sicilian
police inspector knows that this is just the type of situation his
overly ambitious second-in-command, Mimi Augello, will want to
exploit. Meanwhile, Montalbano has to look into the stabbing death
of a retiree in the elevator of the victim's apartment building.
While the trawler incident appears to resolve itself, the elevator
slaying gets more complex by the minute. Soon Montalbano is
searching for the retiree's beautiful housekeeper (and sometimes
prostitute) and her son. It's only when he finds the boy (the snack
thief of the title) that Montalbano learns the true nature of the
case, its relation to the trawler shooting and the danger it poses.
Although warned to keep his distance, Montalbano, who can't deny his
investigative instincts any more than he can refuse a hardy portion
of sardines a beccafico, proceeds headlong into the thick of
government corruption with a risky plan to set things right.
Montalbano, despite his curmudgeonly exterior, has a depth to him
that charms. Readers are sure to savor this engrossing, Mafia-free
Sicilian mystery.
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)
Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (November 5, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN: 0142002399
Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces.
Urbane Sicilian police inspector Salvo Montalbano,
whose exploits have sold more than four million copies in Europe,
makes his long overdue U.S. debut in this spare and spry English
translation of the first novel in the series. When two garbage
collectors find the body of local politician Silvio Luparello locked
in his BMW with his pants down, in "the Pasture," the Vig…ta
town dump frequented by whores and drug dealers, the coroner rules
that Luparello died of natural causes, despite clear evidence to the
contrary. Montalbano refuses to oblige his superiors who want a
hasty close to the case, and it will take a corrupt lawyer's murder
to break it open. The author's view of Sicily is the all-too-common
one of a poor and backward place that many would like to see
separated from the rest of Italy. Camilleri's strength lies in his
gallery of eccentric characters: Signora Luparello, the victim's
admirably cool widow; GegŠ, a pimp and old classmate of
Montalbano's; Giosue Contino, an 82-year-old schoolteacher who
shoots at people because he thinks his 80-year-old wife is cheating
on him; and Anna Ferrara, Montalbano's attractive deputy, "who
every now and then, for whatever reason, would try to seduce
him." Even the two garbage men have Ph.D.s. The maverick
Montalbano doesn't hesitate to destroy clues or extract money from a
crook to help a child, but his wrapping up the case by telling
rather than showing, while acceptable to European audiences, may
disappoint action-oriented American fans.