Experts say that Mr Camilleri's portrayal of Sicilian low life and of Mafia mores is uncannily real.

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The chief prosecutor in Palermo, Sicily's capital, Giancarlo Caselli, a native of Piedmont in Italy's north-west, says he uses Mr Camilleri's books as a crucial cultural guide.

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Maltese referee Christian Lautier officiated and his compatriots Philip Agius and Joseph Camilleri assisted in the absence of Scottish whistlers, who had withdrawn their labour after recent criticism of their performances.

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Italians, it seems, are spending their summer holidays happily ensnared in the Sicilian underworld, courtesy of a 73-year-old television screenplay writer turned novelist, Andrea Camilleri, a Rome-based native Sicilian with no fewer than three books now in Italy's current top ten for fiction.

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