'' The Scent of the Night'' () is a 2001 novel by

Andrea Camilleri Andrea Calogero Camilleri (; 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019) was an Italian writer best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels. Biography Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti, Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the ...

, translated into English in 2005 by

Stephen Sartarelli Stephen Sartarelli (born 1954 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American poet and translator. Life Sartarelli graduated from Antioch College and New York University. Specializing in translations from French and Italian into English, he has translated the ...

. It is the sixth novel in the Inspector Montalbano series.

Plot summary

Inspector Montalbano must track down a lost financial manager who seems to have absconded with all of his clients' money. Along the way, he encounters a lovelorn secretary who believes her boss could do no wrong.

Trivia

The novel openly cites

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's short story, "

A Rose for Emily "A Rose for Emily" is a short story by American author William Faulkner, first published on April 30, 1930 in an issue of '' The Forum''. The story takes place in Faulkner's fictional Jefferson, Mississippi, in the equally fictional county of ...

References

2001 Italian novels Inspector Montalbano novels Italian crime novels Italian mystery novels Novels set in Sicily Picador (imprint) books {{2000s-crime-novel-stub