01799cam a2200313 i 4500 1262015552 TxAuBib 170317s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017013071 9780143128083 0143128086 (OCoLC)12182 TxAuBib rda eng ita Camilleri, Andrea, author. The pyramid of mud / Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli. New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2018. 256 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier English translation of: La piramide di fango. Palermo: Sellerio Editore, 2014. On a gloomy morning in Vigata, a call from Fazio rouses Inspector Montalbano from a nightmare. A man called Giugiu 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, a world just as slimy and impenetrable as mud. As he wades through a world in which construction firms and public officials thrive, Montalbano is obsessed by one thought: that by going to die in the tunnel, Nicotra had been trying to communicate something. Montalbano, Salvo Fictitious character. Montalbano, Salvo Fictitious character. Fiction. Detective and mystery stories, Italian. Sartarelli, Stephen, 1954-, translator. Piramide di fango English.