Southern Seas |
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| Author:
| Vazquez Montalban, Manuel |
| Translator:
| Camiller, Patrick |
| Series title: | A Pepe Carvalho Mystery Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61219-117-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2012 |
| Publisher: | Melville House Publishing
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| Imprint: | Melville International Crime |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho's radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman--a patron of artists and activists--is found dead after going missing for a year. nbsp; In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell--eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters--disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific. nbsp; A year later he is found stabbed to...
More Description Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho's radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman--a patron of artists and activists--is found dead after going missing for a year.
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In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell--eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters--disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific.
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A year later he is found stabbed to death at a construction site in Barcelona. Gourmand gumshoe Pepe Carvalho is hired by Pedrell's wife to find out what happened. Carvalho, a jaded former communist, must travel through circles of the old anti-Franco left wing on the trail of the killer. But with little appetite for politics, Carvalho also leads us on a tour through literature, cuisine, and the criminal underbelly of Barcelona in a typically brilliant twist on the genre by a Spanish master.