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"Two deaths lead Inspector Montalbano into investigations of corruption and power in the twentieth installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Montalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in his office. Was it a suicide? The inspector and the coroner have their doubts, and further investigation leads to the director of a powerful local company....
2) Riccardino
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Montalbano receives an early-morning phone call, but this time it's not Catarella announcing a murder, but a man called Riccardino who's dialed a wrong number and asks him when he'll be arriving at the meeting. Montalbano, in irritation, says: "In ten minutes." Shortly after, he gets another call, this one announcing the customary murder. A man has been shot and killed outside a bar in front of his three friends. It turns out to be the same man who...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
194 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Geronimo, Thea, and Trap are exploring a mysterious old castle built by the founder of New Mouse City. Can they unlock all its rooms and discover its secrets?
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical play. Mimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment; he climbs out the window and into the downstairs apartment, but one danger leads to another. In the dark he sees a body lying on the bed. Shortly after, another body is found, and the victim...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
On a gloomy morning in Vigàta, a call from Fazio rouses Inspector Montalbano from a nightmare. A man called Giugiù Nicotra has been found dead in the skeletal workings of a construction site--a place now entombed by a sea of mud from recent days of rain and floods. Shot in the back, he had fled into a water supply system tunnel. The investigation gets off to a slow start, but all the evidence points to the world of construction and public contracts,...
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"Inspector Montalbano investigates two puzzling cases: Within days of each other two women whose only link is being bank employees are kidnapped, drugged, and then released unharmed hours later. However a third wakes is found naked with thirty shallow knife wounds. In an arson case, a shop is burned down and its owner has vanished into thin air"--
The day gets off to a bad start: trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach, Montalbano hits the...
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Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 33
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
168 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taking a road trip to San Jose along Route 66 while stopping in Chicago, St. Louis, and other iconic cities, the Thea Sisters are dismayed to learn that an unknown saboteur has wiped a special video game project off of a programmer friend's computer.
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series. Two deaths, the suicide a newly laid-off worker and an unscrupulous businessman found murdered, leads Inspector Montalbano to inspect the Halcyon, a nearly abandoned mysterious ship with no passengers. CONTINUES TO HOOK NEW READERS: Each book is a welcome invitation for new readers to the ever popular and growing series. IMPRESSIVE SALES TRACK: Five...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An unidentified corpse is found near Vigàta, a town known for its soil rich with potter's clay. Meanwhile, a woman reports the disappearance of her husband, a Colombian man with Sicilian origins who turns out to be related to a local mobster. Then Inspector Montalbano remembers the story from the Bible-- Judas's betrayal, the act of remorse, and the money for the potter's field, where those of unknown or foreign origin are to be buried-- and slowly,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The new novel in the irresistible New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series. A wave of refugees has arrived on the Sicilian coast, and Inspector Montalbano and his team have been stationed at port, alongside countless volunteers, to receive and assist the newcomers. Meanwhile, Livia has promised their presence at a friend's wedding, and the inspector, agreeing to get a new suit tailored, meets the charming master seamstress Elena...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
158 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thea Stilton and her journalism class try to find a missing student.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 78
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
109 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"My sister Thea and my cousin Trap were not getting along! When Grandfather found them arguing over who would get to join me on a trip to Brazil, he forced us all to go together. My friend Isabela needed my help finding a mysterious emerald. Could Trap and Thea stop shouting their snouts off long enough to help find the stone?" -- Back cover.
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