![]() The novel was filmed as Il giorno della civetta in 1968 by Damiano Damiani, starring Franco Nero as Captain Bellodi and Claudia Cardinale as Rosa Nicolosi. The Day of the Owl is available in paperback under ISBN 1-59017-061-X (New York: NYRB Classics, 2003). The novel ends with Bellodi recounting his time in Sicily to his friends in Parma-who think that it all sounds very romantic-and thinking that he would return to Sicily even if it killed him. The death of an eyewitness leads to the collapse of the case against all three, which sees Bellodi taken off the case. He has ignored the crime passionel lead, which is often a handy excuse for mafia killings. He is attempting to take down an organization with many members involved in the police and government, and whose mere existence many Sicilians deny. A surprise turn puts him on the track of a series of nasty crimes. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of silence. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. ![]() Using faintly corrupt methods, Bellodi traps one man and uses the names given by a dead informer to trap another, who has money stashed away in many bank accounts that add up to more than his fallow fields would ever bring. A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Although his company was only a very small one, the local mafia decides to make an example of him and has him killed. He had been warned that he should take "protection" from mafia members, but he refused. It seems that the man shot, Salvatore Colasberna, was the owner of a small construction company. ![]()
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