The scenario of the story is the world of underground races, the favourite pastime of a certain landed aristocracy that bets heavily.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. When a bomb goes off in front of an empty warehouse, the police think it is some sort of warning, and Montalbano turns his attention to the tenants of a nearby building. There was the usual opera buffa cameo from uniformed officer Catarella and his moustached serial philanderer colleague Mimi but truthfully this leave taking was a knowing celebration of everything the inspector stands for; wry humour, eye-rolling irritation, extravagant passion and of course, a good lunch. In fact Colussi is still alive, and after the war he became a priest and a missionary to atone for his guilt.Livia wants Montalbano to get a new suit for a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary party and she sends him to the tailor and dressmaker Elena Biasini, a woman who also helps the police deal with the many migrants who are arriving each night by boat from North Africa. But make no mistake, the inspector – cool, irascible and driving a clapped out Fiat – possesses the uniquely compelling charisma of an antihero. Thus both cases seem to be connected, and Montalbano eventually uncovers a drugs operation involving Adriano Lombardo and his mafia connections, with Liliana and Arturo caught in the middle.

In the dream his funeral is taking place and that Catarella himself, who is usually entrusted with this funeral communication of the killed dead, is to be announced. Montalbano finds her boyfriend Francesco to be a great help in uncovering the truth behind the apparent kidnapping. Pasquano who as usual refuses to give details on the dead before performing an autopsy, the commissioner Bonetti-Alderighi who does not authorize Montalbano to investigate his own death, his friend Mimì Augello. In that letter Manzella reveals that he discovered, with his telescope, a traffic of weapons at the port, led by Franco Sinagra, who was also the partner, violent and very jealous, of the transsexual Giovanna, who he also frequented regularly. Montalbano opens the shutters of his room one morning to find the bloody corpse of a horse on the shore.He was taken prisoner by the Allies during the war and taken to Texas, where he married and spent the rest of his life. In the UK, the earlier episodes are currently available in both a collection and series format, with the series numbering following BBC Four's. He discovers that Di Carlo’s girlfriend Silvana has disappeared, which adds to the mystery, since it also turns out that she has also been the lover of Di Carlo’s best friend. Montalbano comes under pressure from his superiors as the politicians involved in the two cases deplore his attitude and his handling of the cases.

I haven't read the novels, but if Camilleri himself wrote this action, it feels like a deliberate attack on Montalbano's legacy. It continues to offer viewers an absolutely addictive mix of romance, humor, and intrigue in just the right proportions. The first concerns an alleged robbery and sexual assault suffered by Loredana Di Marti, whose husband comes to report the crime, but the facts as told to the police don’t add up. Montalbano and Fazio quickly identify him as Gerardo Nicotra, an accountant with the construction company working on the pipeline. Montalbano senses that the crime was committed by two different killers, who acted almost simultaneously unbeknown to each other.To escape notice and not jeopardize his friend’s marriage, Mimi was off to the balcony and then down to the apartment below — where he encountered a man’s corpse. They are all there but the one who should be present at the funeral is missing: his fiancée Livia who, reached by telephone by the annoyed deceased, announces that he may not be able to intervene in time and that, to be honest, he will take advantage of his death, of this unique opportunity, to feel free from a relationship that dragged on wearily.