![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen Sartarelli’s translation allows Camilleri’s deft humor to come through vividly his attempts to portray lower classes by giving them Cockney-style slang are less successful but tolerable for the sake of enjoying this lively crime novel. So it’s a relief to tag along with the mundane and sometimes stumbling efforts of police procedure, as Montalbano marvels at his discoveries and tries to find the right combination of person and scene to explain both the original murder and a second one. Anyone who’s subjected themselves to drama school at any level-or even to ordinary high school-will grasp the real level of malice and damage produced by the far-too-clever director. ![]()
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