The Scent Of The Night

As an angry octogenarian holds a terrified and lovelorn secretary at gunpoint, inspector montalbano is reluctantly drawn into the case. The secretary's boss, a financial adviser, has vanished along with several billion lire entrusted to him by the good citizens of vigata. also missing is the adviser's young colleague, whose uncle just happens to be building a house on the site of inspector montalbano's very favourite olive tree.