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Synopsis. Montalbano's house in the fictional Marinella, actually in Punta Secca, district of Santa Croce Camerina. Inspector Salvo Montalbano is in charge of the state police station in Vigàta, a fictional town in the fictional province of Montelusa (see locations) in Sicily, Southern Italy.
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- The Shape of Water #1. Italian 1994, English 2002. The Pasture, formerly communal grazing land, has become home to the local prostitutes and drug dealers.
- The Terracotta Dog #2. Italian 1996, English 2002. The Terracotta Dog opens with a clandestine phone call between Montalbano and an old mafioso. That leads the detective to a secret grotto in a cave in the mountains where the bodies of two young lovers are discovered, guarded by a giant terracotta dog for 50 years.
- The Snack Thief #3. Italian 1996, English 2003. An elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator, while at sea an Italian fishing trawler is machine gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily’s coast.
- The Voice of the Violin #4. Italian 1997, English 2003. A young women is found suffocated and naked on her bed. This arouses the inspector’s anger and pity.
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Jan 16, 2023 · By Irene S. Levine January 16, 2023. “The Catalanotti Method,” the long-awaited final episode of the internationally-acclaimed Italian TV series, Inspector Montalbano, first aired on MHzChoice on July 6, 2021. Viewers of this episode (first broadcast by the state-owned station, RAI, in Italy last March), won’t be disappointed.
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- The Shape of Water. When two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture, the coroner's verdict is death from natural causes.
- The Terracotta Dog. The Terracotta Dog opens with a mysterious tête-à-tête with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers dead fifty years and still embracing are watched over by a life-size terracotta dog.
- The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents.
- The Voice of the Violin. Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer.
Season 14 (2020) Season 15 (2021) External links. List of Inspector Montalbano episodes. Inspector Montalbano is an Italian police procedural television series. Since 6 May 1999, 37 original episodes have been produced and broadcast by RAI . Preview. Episodes. Season 1 (1999) Season 2 (2000) Season 3 (2001) Season 4 (2002) Season 5 (2005)
Summarize this article for a 10 year old. SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. The Inspector Montalbano ( Italian: Il commissario Montalbano [ il kommisˈsaːrjo montalˈbaːno]) television series are Italian police procedural stories.
Apr 29, 2023 · By Irene S. Levine April 29, 2023. I just finished reading Riccardino, the last book in the Detective Montalbano series. Published posthumously, the novel was the 28th in the popular crime fiction series created by Andrea Camilleri. Cover of the last book in the Detective Montalbano series.
