The Scent of the Night is the sixth comic detective novel in the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri. Montalbano learned how hard it was to put on a wetsuit while in a dinghy speeding over a sea that wasn't exactly calm. Mimi; at the helm; looked tense and worried. Getting seasick? the inspector asked him at one point. No. Just sick of myself. Why? Because every now and then I realize what a stupid shit I am to go along with some of your brilliant ideas. When an angry octogenarian holds a terrified and lovelorn secretary at gunpoint; Inspector Montalbano is reluctantly drawn into the case. The secretary's boss; a financial advisor; has vanished along with several billion lire entrusted to him by the good citizens of Vigata. Also missing is the advisor's young colleague; whose uncle just happens to be building a house on the site of Inspector Montalbano's very favourite olive tree . . . Ably abetted by his loyal and eccentric team; Montalbano; the food-loving; commitment-phobic inspector; returns for another delicious investigation served up in vintage Camilleri style. The Scent of the Night is followed by the seventh book in the series; Rounding the Mark.