The Pyramid of Mud

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Originally published in Italian as La piramide di fango by Sellerio Editore, Palermo.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Camilleri, Andrea, author. | Sartarelli, Stephen, 1954- translator.

Title: The pyramid of mud / Andrea Camilleri ; Translated by Stephen Sartarelli. Other titles: Piramide di fango. English (Sartarelli)

Description: New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2018. | English translation of: La pirmaide di fango. Palermo: Sellerio Editore, @2014. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017013071 (print) | LCCN 2017017406 (ebook) | ISBN 9780698195882 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143128083

Subjects: LCSH: Montalbano, Salvo (Fictitious character)—Fiction. |Detective and mystery stories, Italian. | LCGFT: Fiction. | Novels.

Classification: LCC PQ4863.A3894 (ebook) | LCC PQ4863.A3894 P5713 2018 (print) | DDC 853/.914—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017013071

Cover design by Paul Buckley

Cover illustration by Andy Bridge

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously,and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.