Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories

Resumen del libro

"You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood - altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano." A.J. Finn, 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

Twenty-one short stories spanning the beloved Inspector Montalbano's career

Inspector Montalbano has charmed readers in nineteen popular novels, and now in Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories, Andrea Camilleri has selected twenty-one short stories, written with his trademark wit and humor, that follow Italy's famous detective through highlight cases of his career. From the title story, featuring a young deputy Montalbano newly assigned to Vigata, to "Montalbano Says No," in which the inspector makes a late-night call to Camilleri himself to refuse an outlandish case, this collection is an essential addition to any Inspector Montalbano fan's bookshelf and a wonderful way to introduce readers to the internationally bestselling series.

Biografía del autor

Andrea Camilleri (1925-2019) fue guionista y director de teatro, radio y televisión, además de uno de los más reconocidos y prolíficos novelistas italianos contemporáneos. Tras haber abarcado numerosos géneros literarios, alcanzó la fama mundial gracias al personaje de Salvo Montalbano, un entrañable comisario de policía siciliano protagonista de una saga que consta de veintiocho novelas y de varios relatos recopilados en cinco volúmenes. Camilleri, traducido a treinta y seis idiomas y con más de treinta millones de ejemplares vendidos en el mundo, ha sido galardonado con los premios Campiello (2011) y Pepe Carvalho (2014).