The author Andrea Camilleri created which Sicilian detective?
Salvo Montalbano stated by the same Camilleri. Salvo Montalbano Inspector Salvo Montalbano (Italian: commissario Salvo Montalbano) is a fictional detective created by Italian writer Andrea Camilleri in a series of novels and short stories. The fractious detective's character and manner encapsulate much of Sicilian mythology and astute detective work. The original books are written in a mixture of Italian, strict Sicilian, and a Sicilianized Italian. Although the Inspector Montalbano series of novels are staged in the Sicilian context, Camilleri uncompromisingly confronts many contemporary political and social problems. The novels were translated into English by Stephen Sartarelli. The translation of the Montalbano novels
Andrea Camilleri Neither of these works enjoyed any significant amount of popularity. In 1992, after a long pause of 12 years, Camilleri once more took up novel-writing. A new book, "La Stagione della Caccia" ("The Hunting Season") turned out to be a best-seller. In 1994 Camilleri published the first in a long series of novels: "La forma dell'Acqua" ("The Shape of Water") featured the character of Inspector Montalbano, a fractious Sicilian detective in the police force of Vigàta, an imaginary Sicilian town. The series is written in Italian but with a substantial sprinkling of Sicilian phrases and grammar. The name Montalbano is