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The Terra-Cotta Dog by Camilleri, Andrea is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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SUMMARY: Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic, engaging take on Sicilian life and his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of crimes. The Terra-cotta Dog opens with the inspector's mysterious tête-à-tête with a mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There, in a secret grotto, he finds a harrowing scene: two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-size terra-cotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the island's past and into a family's dark heart amid the horrors of World War II bombardment. From sly comedy at the expense of his fellow policemen to personal soul searching that helps him enter the minds of those he must investigate, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness and imagination coalesce into a unique, unfailing appeal.
Who reads The Terra-Cotta Dog?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Camilleri, Andrea
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781436276870
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Thriller, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (105 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- IM2 The Terra-Cotta Dog (2002) (2002)
- The Terra-Cotta Dog (2002)
- The Terra-Cotta Dog (1996)
- Der Hund aus Terracotta. Commissario Montalbano löst seinen zweiten Fall. (2013)
- The Terracotta God (2002)
- Der Hund aus Terracotta · Commissario Montalbano zweiter Fall (2010)
- The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries) (2012)
- Excursion to Tindari (The Inspector Montalbano Mysteries Book 5) (2001)
- Der Hund aus Terracotta. Commissario Montalbano löst seinen zweiten Fall. (2012)
- The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries) (2002)
- The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries) (2005)
- Der Hund aus Terracotta. Commissario Montalbano löst seinen zweiten Fall. (2001)
- Der Hund aus Terracotta: Commissario Montalbano löst seinen zweiten Fall. Roman (2010)
- 002 - Der Hund aus Terracotta (2012)
- The Terra-Cotta Dog (1999)
- The Terra-Cotta Dog: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery (2004)
- Excursion to Tindari (The Inspector Montalbano Mysteries Book 5) (2014)
- The Terra Cotta Dog (2008)
- Der Hund aus Terracotta. Commissario Montalbano löst seinen zweiten Fall. (2002)
- The Cotta Dog (1996)
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