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A Pepe Carvalho Mystery

The Angst-Ridden Executive

The Angst-Ridden Executive


by Manuel Vazquez Montalban

  • MYSTERY
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

When Antonio Jauma, a director of the multinational conglomerate Petnay, is murdered, his widow seeks out private investigator Pepe Carvalho, who had met and forgotten the playboy executive after their single chance encounter -- back when Carvalho still worked for the CIA. (SPN476, $14.95)

The Buenos Aires Quintet

The Buenos Aires Quintet


by Manuel Vazquez Montalban

  • LITERATURE
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 377 PAGES
  • COMING IN FEBRUARY

Montalban comments on not just wine, women and song, but also much of Argentina's political and cultural history in this riveting detective tale set against a backdrop of 1970s Buenos Aires culture and the era's repressive military junta. (ARG48, $14.95)

The Man of My Life

The Man of My Life


by Manuel Vazquez Montalban

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

Back in Barcelona, Spain's most famous detective, Pepe Carvalho, is swiftly embroiled in a murderous scandal amid the murky politics of 21st-century Catalonia. (SPN396, $14.95)

Murder in the Central Committee

Murder in the Central Committee


by Manuel Vazquez Montalban

  • MYSTERY
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES
  • COMING IN FEBRUARY

The general secretary of the Spanish Communist Party is murdered, and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet private detective, is the ideal man to track down the killer. This, the best-known title in the Pepe Carvalho series, captures a vivid sense of contemporary Spain. (SPN402, $14.95)

Off Side

Off Side


by Manuel Vazquez Montalban

  • MYSTERY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

This fifth novel in the hugely successful Pepe Carvalho series revolves around a favorite Spanish pastime: socccer. Jack Mortimer, European Soccer Star of the Year, brought in the revive the sagging fortunes of Barcelona soccer club, is receiving death threats. (SPN403, $13.00)

An Olympic Death

An Olympic Death


by Manuel Vazquez Montalban

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

As Montalban's overweight hero finds dead bodies and broken socialist promises, he discovers an older, seedier Barcelona hidden behind the shiny new Olympic City. (SPN404, $14.95)

Southern Seas

Southern Seas


by Manuel Vazquez Montalban

  • MYSTERY
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES
  • COMING IN MAY

Who better to find the killer of a dead dreamer, a powerful businessman on his way to Polynesia, than overweight bon vivant and ex-communist private investigator Pepe Carvalho? (SPN405, $14.95)

Tattoo

Tattoo


by Manuel Vazquez Montalban

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Pepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-Marxist, and constant gourmet, is working as a private detective in Barcelona when a body is pulled out of the sea, its face so badly destroyed that the only way of indentifying it is through a tattoo that says "Born to raise hell in hell." (SPN397, $14.95)

 

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