Camilleri's detective novels are notable for dealing, in a deceptively jokey and congenial tone, with dark concerns.
What stops the book collapsing under its own thematic weight is a certain linguistic verve, and the sense that this is a really talented and ambitious author who might at any moment surprise the reader by a plot twist, some technical bravura, or a thematic transcendence that will take the story beyond its gratuitously dark concerns to another, more meaningful level.
The immediate reaction, though, reflected the dark concerns of a world in the grip of the cold war, a time of fear and division in which the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, stared each other down with the menace of mass destruction.
Now there I was, perfectly capable of surviving a job interview but still left in the dark concerning what to apply to.
The SEC charged that ITT management "engineered a campaign of deception and half-truths that left ITT's auditors and investors in the dark concerning the company's mushrooming obligations" regarding its private student loan program.
4) "With the standard event set and condition, the algorithm was mathematically proved [ 7]"; this statement leaves the reader in the dark concerning the exact statement of the algorithm that has been demonstrated.
Indeed, the central mystery of "His Dark Materials" concerns the nature of Dust, a dark matter-like substance that the scientists of Lyra's world have only recently learned how to detect.
In later moments on Thursday she seemed to be brooding on the darkest spiritual concerns.
More and more communities across the country are looking to LED street lighting for a number of compelling reasons, including dark sky concerns.
Witnesses repeatedly told of a bullying culture within the wider NHS, of civil servants pursuing government policy to get more foundation trusts approved, while ministers were kept in the dark about concerns.
