The Voice of the Violin

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The Voice of the Violin
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Italian first edition cover
Author Andrea Camilleri
Original titleLa voce del violino
Translator Stephen Sartarelli
Language Italian/Sicilian
Series Inspector Salvo Montalbano, #4
Genre Crime, Mystery novel
PublisherSellerio (ITA)
Viking (US)
Macmillan/Picador (UK)
Publication date
12 December 1997
Publication place Italy, Sicily
Published in English
2003
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages224 pp
272 pp (Eng. trans.)
ISBN 0-330-49298-5 (Eng. trans.)
OCLC 57006171
Preceded by The Snack Thief  
Followed by Excursion to Tindari  

The Voice of the Violin ( Italian: La voce del violino) is a 1997 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2003 by Stephen Sartarelli.

Contents

It is the fourth novel of the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series.

Plot introduction

It is one of those black days that afflict Montalbano, who becomes intractable when the weather is bad. On his way to a funeral, Montalbano's driver avoids what seems to be a suicidal chicken, making the car skid and hitting another car parked in front of a villa. The inspector leaves a note under the windshield wiper of the damaged car to warn the owner. Since his colleague complains about the blow he received, the two go to the hospital. On the way back - it has now become too late for the funeral ceremony - the inspector notices that the damaged car has remained where he left it with the ticket still in the windshield wiper.

Finding the damaged car still where it was the next morning, Montalbano forces the door of the villa which has signs of being inhabited but appears deserted. He wanders through the various rooms until in a bedroom a gruesome scene appears in the eyes of the inspector: a young woman, blonde and beautiful, completely naked, lies dead in her bed.

Characters

Reception

Maxine Clark described the novel as "a perfect example of all that is good about this series. The plot is one of the stronger, leaner ones". [1]

Adaptation

It was first adapted for television by RAI with Luca Zingaretti in the TV series Inspector Montalbano . The episode was the second of the series and aired on 13 May 1999. [2]

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References

  1. Review - The Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri, November 2007, retrieved 17 October 2019
  2. La voce del violino (1999) at IMDb