Southern Seas (Pluto Crime) - Softcover

Vazquez Montalban, Manuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745302041 ISBN 13: 9780745302041

Publisher: Pluto Press, 1986

Synopsis

Cover copy The body of Stuart Pedrell, a powerful businessman, is found in a Barcelona suburb. He had disappeared on his way to Polynesia in search of the visionary spirit of Paul Gauguin. Who better to find the killer of a dead dreamer than Pepe Carvalho, overweight bon viveur and ex-communist? The trail for Pedrell?s killer unearths a world of disillusioned lefties, graphic sex and nouvelle cuisine - major ingredients of post-Franco Spain. A tautly-written mystery with an unforgettable - and highly unusual - protagonist.

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Review:

?Pepe Carvalho is a phlegmatic investigator. His greatest concern is with his stomach, but when not pursuing delicacies, he can unravel the most tangled of mysteries? Sunday Times

Montalban writes with authority and compassion - a Le Carr?-like sorrow (Publishers)

Weekly 'Montalban is a writer who is caustic about the powerful and tender towards the oppressed (TLS)

I cannot wait for other Pepe Carvalho titles to be published here (New Statesman)

About the Author:

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona in 1939. He was a journalist, novelist and creator of Pepe Carvalho, a fast-living, gourmet private detective. Montalbán won both the Raymond Chandler Prize and the French Grand Prix of Detective Fiction for his thrillers, which are translated into all major languages. He died in October 2003.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0745302041
• ISBN 13: 9780745302041
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214