The Scent Of The Night: Andrea Camilleri

When an angry octogenarian holds a terrified and lovelorn secretary at gunpoint, Inspector Montalban is reluctantly drawn into the case. The secretary's boss, a financial adviser, is missing - along with several billion lire belonging to the good citizens of Vigata. Also missing is the financial adviser's young colleague, whose uncle just happens to be building a house on the site of Inspector Montalban's favourite olive tree...