The Terracotta Dog

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The Terracotta Dog

Italian first edition cover
Author	Andrea Camilleri
Original title	Il cane di terracotta
Translator	Stephen Sartarelli
Language	Italian/Sicilian
Series	Inspector Salvo Montalbano, #2
Genre	Crime, Mystery novel
Publisher	Sellerio (ITA) Viking (US) Macmillan/Picador (UK)
Publication date	18 April 1996
Publication place	Italy, Sicily
Published in English	2002
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages	288 pp 352 pp (Eng. trans.)
ISBN	0-330-49291-8 (Eng. trans.)
OCLC	59278658
Preceded by	The Shape Of Water
Followed by	The 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.