水的形状 (1994)

La forma dell'acqua

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作者: 安德烈亚·卡米莱里
首版: 1994 年
国家/地区: 意大利
Open Library: 10 个版本

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《水的形状》（意大利语：La forma dell'acqua）是意大利侦探小说家安德烈亚·卡米莱里于1994年出版的小说，蒙塔巴诺警长探案系列的第一个故事。2002年，英文版出版。

它被意大利广播电视公司改编为电视剧，2000年5月2日首播。

情节提要

皮诺·卡塔拉诺（Pino Catalano）和萨罗·蒙塔波托（Saro Montaperto）是维加塔小镇上的两位年轻土地测量师，只因年轻而未被正式聘用。他们被斯派拉德公司聘为临时的“生态代理人”，其实就是负责收集清理垃圾。工头将原来佩佩和卡鲁佐负责的工作区域交给他俩来做。该区域被称为“牧场”（mànnara）。这是位于城镇郊区的一大片广阔的地中海灌木丛林，后面是一个大型化工厂的废墟。皮诺在清理靠近海滩的一部分，在灌木林里发现了一辆汽车，乘客座位上似乎有一个人。他并没有在睡觉，而是眼睛睁的很大，一动不动。他已经死了。

死者是当地著名的政治家，声誉极高。各方势力向警局施压，但蒙塔巴诺警长不愿草草结案。在关键证据的指引下，案件的迷雾被逐渐拨开，权力的游戏浮出水面......

以上文字摘自维基百科「水的形状」（去掉了参考文献等尾部小节），按 CC BY-SA 4.0 使用，作者为维基百科的各位编者。

中文维基百科的条目比较短，下面附上英文维基百科的内容（英文原文）：

The Shape of Water (Italian: La forma dell'acqua) is a 1994 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2002 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the first novel of the Inspector Montalbano series.

Plot summary

Silvio Luparello, an engineer, developer and aspiring politician from an aristocratic construction family, dies of a heart attack while having sex with his nephew and lover Giorgio at his beach house. The nephew panics, and, wanting to protect his uncle from the embarrassing circumstance of his death and not trusting himself to be able to move his uncle's body due to his epilepsy, calls his uncle's friend and political crony, Attorney Rizzo, for help. Rizzo assures the nephew he will take care of it, but then, instead of trying to help, attempts to take advantage of the situation and betrays his friendship with Luparello by attempting to use his death to gain leverage over his political opponent, Secretary Cardamone. This he does by attempting to cast Cardamone's Swedish daughter-in-law Ingrid as Luparello's lover and implicating her in his death – at the scene of a seamy outdoor brothel.

The film version starts off the morning after the death at the outdoor brothel, with two surveyors working as garbage collectors. They discover the body and contact Attorney Rizzo in an attempt to curry favor with him and maybe get proper surveyor's jobs by giving him the chance to move Luparello's body in order to avoid the embarrassment of Luparello being found at the outdoor brothel, dead with his pants down. Rizzo rebuffs the garbage men, much to their surprise, as he is known to be Luparello's friend and ally.

Meanwhile, one of the garbage men finds Ingrid's very valuable solid gold jewel-encrusted necklace, planted by Rizzo's Ingrid look-alike as part of the frame-up. The handbag with her initials in which she normally kept the necklace was also planted at the brothel in case somebody walked off with the necklace.

Montalbano, with the help of his boyhood friend and outdoor brothel pimp Gegè, and with the help of Luparello's wife (who tips Montalbano to the fact that somebody must have dressed Luparello because his underwear was on inside out), figures out that the garbage men have the necklace and also that Attorney Rizzo is the bad guy. Montalbano initially suspects Ingrid's involvement because of her relationship with Luparello which he formerly thought sexual, but she convinces Montalbano that she wasn't involved. Montalbano then destroys the planted evidence against her and makes sure that Rizzo pays a reward for the necklace (so that the garbage man and his wife can send their sick child out of the country for proper medical treatment).

The story wraps up with Montalbano "playing God" by ignoring a gun that he finds in the beach house, thus giving Giorgio the opportunity to avenge his uncle's betrayal by beating up and killing Rizzo. In the end though Giorgio, too, dies – in a car accident – after previously having had one due to an epileptic seizure that required him to wear a neck brace (which we assume is the same one that Montalbano found at the outdoor brothel, and which we also assume was there because of being used by Rizzo and the Ingrid look-alike to make Luparello appear to be alive during the "sex" act at the outdoor brothel).