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The Terracotta Dog
Italian first edition cover
AuthorAndrea Camilleri
Original titleIl cane di terracotta
TranslatorStephen Sartarelli
CountryItaly, Sicily
LanguageItalian/Sicilian
SeriesInspector Salvo Montalbano, #2
GenreCrime, Mystery novel
PublisherSellerio (ITA)
Viking (US)
Macmillan/Picador (UK)
Publication date
18 April 1996
Published in English
2002
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages288 pp
352 pp (Eng. trans.)
ISBN0-330-49291-8 (Eng. trans.)
OCLC59278658
Preceded byThe Shape Of Water 
Followed byThe Snack Thief 

The Terracotta Dog (Italian: Il cane di terracotta) is a 1996 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2002 by Stephen Sartarelli.

It is the second novel of the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series.[1] While chasing down a mafia crime, Montalbano finds a cave with symbolic artifacts and the bodies of two young lovers, hidden since World War II.

  1. ^ "The Terracotta Dog: An Inspector Montalbano Novel 2 - Pan Macmillan AU". Pan Macmillan Australia. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

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