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Inspector Montalbano: Series 1

2 episodes Premiered May 6, 1999 Updated Jul 22, 2026

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S1·E1 Mytharc

The Snack Thief

May 6, 1999 · 105 min

Detective Montalbano investigates the murder of a local businessman called Lapecora. Lapecora's widow suspects that he was killed by his lover Karima, a young Tunisian woman who my

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The Voice of the Violin

May 13, 1999 · 105 min

When the naked dead body of a young woman is found in a villa outside Vigata, Montalbano discovers that she had recently bought the villa and was in the process of restoring it usi