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"The books of Andrea Camilleri inhale out the sense of wit of place, the sense, and the sense of despair that fill the atmosphere of Sicily." -Donna Leon Inspector Salvatore Montalbano gets from unusual desires to locate a gruesomely bludgeoned mount carcass before his beach house. The carcass has vanished, leaving merely a walk in the mud, when his men found examine. Subsequently his house is ransacked and the inspector is for certain that the violations are connected. As he negotiates both underworld of horse-racing and the Mafiais link with it, Montalbano is assisted by his illiterate housekeeper, Adelina, and a memory of linguate fritte.