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MYSTERIES
A Lieutenant Mario Conde Mystery
Adios Hemingway
• Leonardo Padura Fuentes
• John King
MYSTERY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 229 PAGES
Following Padura's popular four-book series, Cuban detective Mario Conde, righteous and Marlowe-like, returns to investigate a murder that occurred on Ernest Hemingway's estate over 40 years before. This is the first Padura book translated into English.
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Havana Black
• Leonardo Padura
• Peter R. Bush
MYSTERY •
2006 •
PAPER
In the final Inspector Mario Conde book of the quartet series (the second of the books translated into English), the righteous, Marlowe-like Conde -- aka "The Count"-- resigns from office, but not before taking on the case of a brutally murdered Cuban defector in the wake of a torrential hurricane headed for Havana.
(CBA104, $14.95) |
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Havana Blue
• Leonardo Padura
MYSTERY •
2008 •
PAPER
• 244 PAGES
Lieutenant Mario Conde is suffering from a terrible New Year's Eve hangover. Though it's the middle of a weekend, he is asked to urgently investigate the mysterious disappearance of Rafael Morin, a high-level business manager in the Cuban nomenklatura. Conde remembered Morin from their student days: good-looking, brilliant, a "reliable comrade'' who always got what he wanted, including Tamara, the girl Conde was after.
(CBA119, $14.95) |
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Havana Gold
• Leonardo Padura
MYSTERY •
2008 •
PAPER
• 286 PAGES
The second of Padura's prize-winning Havana quartet featuring police lieutenant Mario Conde.
(CBA118, $14.95) |
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Havana Red
• Peter R. Bush
• Leonardo Padura
MYSTERY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 233 PAGES
When a diplomat's son is found in the Havana Woods, strangled by a red ribbon and wearing a flashy red dress, the righteous, Marlowe-like Inspector Mario Conde -- known as "The Count" -- must unravel the controversial mystery under the eyes of the 1989 Communist Party. The third of four Havana detective novels featuring Inspector Conde and the first of the quartet translated into English.
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