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Blood on the saddle / Rafael Reig ; translated by Paul Hammond.
Van Pelt Library PQ6668.E44 S2613 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reig, Rafael
- Standardized Title:
- Sangre a borbotones. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Private investigators--Fiction.
- Private investigators.
- Madrid (Spain)--Fiction.
- Madrid (Spain).
- Genre:
- Black humor (Literature)
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 182 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Serpent's Tail, 2005.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Summary:
- "Hilarious, a literary "Hellzapoppin.""-Matt Thorne
- Dickens & Clot Investigations Ltd, a detective agency in a waterlogged Madrid, has a couple of unusual specialities: helping distraught authors in search of characters who've quit the page and assumed a life of their own, and taking on Manex Chopeitia, legendary Big Brother of a mighty genetic-engineering company. Carlos Clot-a paunchy, alcoholic private eye -"gumshoes his way around a drug- and drink-sodden metropolis in a personal quest to put both 'real' and 'fictional' people in their place.
- Born in Northern Spain in 1963, Rafael Reig studied philosophy and humanities in Madrid and later in New York. He lives in Madrid.
- ISBN:
- 1852428708
- OCLC:
- 60560941
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