Andrea Camilleri: "August Heat"
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London: Picador, 2009.
[translated from Italian]

[Context:  very hot weather]
p.93: [NP] He couldn't stay in his office any longer.  His brain felt
reduced to a kind of dense jam in which his thoughts had trouble
circulating and sometimes got stuck. [NP]

p.180: [NP] Deep inside his ears the [police] inspector distinctly heard
the sound of his hypotheses falling noisily to pieces.