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A Pepe Carvalho Mystery
The Angst-Ridden Executive
• Manuel Vazquez Montalban
MYSTERY •
2012 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
Pepe Carvalho, gourmet private detective, seems the ideal man to track down the killer. 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. Like all the Pepe Carvalho series, it features sex, politics and a most vivid sense of contemporary Spain.
(SPN476, $14.95) |
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The Buenos Aires Quintet
• Manuel Vazquez Montalban
LITERATURE •
2012 •
PAPER
• 377 PAGES
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) |
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The Man of My Life
• Manuel Vazquez Montalban
MYSTERY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
Spain's most famous detective Pepe Carvalho is back in Barcelona and is swiftly embroiled in a murderous scandal amid the murky politics of twenty-first century Catalonia. When the son of a rich financier is murdered, Carvalho is called upon to investigate his mysterious death. In his quest for the killer, Carvalho infiltrates the world of satanism and religious sects.
(SPN396, $14.95) |
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Murder in the Central Committee
• Manuel Vazquez Montalban
MYSTERY •
2012 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
The general secretary of the Spanish Communist Party is murdered. Pepe Carvalho, gourmet private detective, seems the ideal man to track down the killer. Unfortunately, the job requires a trip to Madrid -- an inhospitable city whose gastronomic and sexual agendas are inevitably thorougly inferior to those of Barcelona. This, the best-known title in the Pepe Carvalho series, features everything that is wonderful about the books: sex, politics and a most vivid sense of contemporary Spain.
(SPN402, $14.95) |
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Off Side
• Manuel Vazquez Montalban
MYSTERY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
Off Side is the 5th novel in the hugely successful Pepe Carvalho series. To revive its sagging fortunes, Barcelona soccer club has bought the services of Jack Mortimer, European Soccer Player of the Year. No sooner has Mortimer taken possession of his company Porsche than death threats start arriving. Are they a hoax, the work of a loner or are they connected to the awesome real estate speculation that is tearing Barcelona apart?
(SPN403, $13.00) |
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An Olympic Death
• Manuel Vazquez Montalban
MYSTERY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
As Barcelona prepares for the Games, the city is turned over to make way for new roads, a new stadium, and the giant prawn sculptures of Mariscal. PI Pepe Carvalho now finds himself forced to work for the Olympic entrepreneurs. 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) |
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Southern Seas
• Manuel Vazquez Montalban
MYSTERY •
2012 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
The body of Stuart Pedrell, a powerful businessman, is found in a Barcelona suburb. He had disappeared on his way to the Polynesia in search of the visionary spirit of the painter, Paul Gauguin. Who better to find the killer of a dead dreamer that Pepe Carvalho, overweight bon viveur and ex-communist?
(SPN405, $14.95) |
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Tattoo
• 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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