Montalbano investigates criminal acts which he always manages to solve by reconstruction thanks to his intelligence and the help of his team which includes his deputy, Domenico 'Mimì' Augello, Giuseppe Fazio, Galluzzo, and Agatino Catarella.

Among his external collaborators are: In a recent interview, Luca Zingaretti said: “For me it was a wonderful professional and human adventure.

Does it make sense to end the saga by filming the last two unpublished novels also as a sign of respect towards them?

Alberto Sironi (it), who died suddenly in early August 2019, had directed the entire series up till then.

Camilleri was teaching at the same time that Zingaretti was studying at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico.

Austrian actress Katharina Böhm, then Lina Perned (both dubbed by Claudia Catani) and lastly Sonia Bergamasco played his girlfriend, Livia.

In June 2014, BBC Four began a re-run of all existing episodes and this time commencing in the correct running order.

In Australia, the series was shown on Special Broadcasting Service in Italian, subtitled in English by SBS staff.

Region 1 MHz Networks distributes the Detective Montalbano series on TV, DVD, TVOD and SVOD.

All were released in 2009 (labelled 1999, the start date of the series) with Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish subtitles.