Laura Dail Translator (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good clean sturdy copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. A clean, tight copy (considerable water staining to bottom of rear jacket cover). Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Mystery. Sale.

VG+/VG+. First edition. 378 pp. DJ very lightly rubbed. Top spine edge has very short, open tear. Spine square, tight. Interior very clean, bright. No marks. Very nice reading copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st U.S. edition, September 1996, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Taibo's novels about Mexico City detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne (No Happy Ending) are an addicting import. At first, their hard-boiled surrealistic flights -- as if Garcia Marquez had been taking writing lessons from Dashiell Hammett -- can strike a reader as excessive and glib, but soon they become part of a beguiling worldview in which everything, including crime and love, are elements in a cosmic joke. So you find here that Hector, left a bullet-riddled corpse in the rain in No Happy Ending, has been miraculously resurrected for another case. It involves a shadowy figure with several names, who seems to have caused the suicide of someone's sister and is being pursued by an alcoholic American reporter with sources in the CIA. Is the many-aliased Luke Estrella also involved in a guns-for-drugs Contra operation? Hector doesn't really care, but sets off in dogged pursuit anyway, to Acapulco, then Tijuana, finally bringing matters to a head in a hilarious climax involving several hired mariachi bands, armed to the teeth, in an empty warehouse. Don't forget the two ducks that live under Hector's bed, and how down he gets when he runs out of Coke. As noted, these tales are an easily acquired taste." -- Publishers Weekly. Book.…

hardcover. Condition: Like New. 1st/1st. Pristine. Hardcover and unclipped dust jacket in protective Mylar shows almost no wear. Text is unmarked and binding tight. We ship DAILY.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. Appears unread.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.