| The Scent of the Night | |
| Title Orig: | L'odore della notte |
| Translator: | Stephen Sartarelli |
| Author: | Andrea Camilleri |
| Country: | Italy, Sicily |
| Language: | Italian/Sicilian |
| Series: | Inspector Salvo Montalbano, #6 |
| Genre: | Crime, Mystery novel |
| Publisher: | Macmillan/Picador |
| Release Date: | 28 June 2001 |
| English Pub Date: | 2005 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Isbn: | 0-330-44217-1 |
| Isbn Note: | (Eng. trans.) |
| Oclc: | 71347307 |
| Preceded By: | Excursion to Tindari |
| Followed By: | Rounding the Mark |
The Scent of the Night (it|L'odore della notte) is a 2001 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2005 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the sixth novel in the Inspector Montalbano series.[1] [2] [3]
Inspector Montalbano must track down a lost financial manager who seems to have absconded with all of his clients' money. Along the way, he encounters a lovelorn secretary who believes her boss could do no wrong.
The novel openly cites Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily".[4]