The Scent of the Night ( L’odore della notte ) is a 2001 novel by Andrea Camilleri

Andrea Camilleri

Andrea Camilleri is an Italian writer.-Biography:Originally from Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Camilleri, began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories.From 1948 to 1950 Camilleri studied stage and film direction at the Silvio...

, translated into English in 2005 by Stephen Sartarelli

Stephen Sartarelli

-Life:He graduated from Antioch College and New York University. He has translated the Inspector Montalbano series of detective novels written by the Italian writer Andrea Camilleri; these have gained considerable popularity in the US and the UK....

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

Plot summary

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

Trivia

• The novel openly cites Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily."