num_pages: 231
description: The highly entertaining debut crime-fiction novel from Brazilian music icon and best-selling author Bellotto is finally published in English.Who is the missing dancer Ana Cíntia Lopes? Why did her coworkers, Camila and Dinéia, disappear? What does the voluptuous prostitute Fatima want? Who killed renowned surgeon Dr. Samuel Rafidjian? And what is the role of the hulking live-sex performer known as the Indian?To confront the puzzle of several sphinxes, most of them female, private detective Remo Bellini plunges into the underworld of São Paulo. Little by little, the mysteries unravel in a surprising fashion, until the solving of the final enigma leaves Bellini perplexed, with a bitter taste in his mouth.Translated from Brazilian Portuguese into English by Clifford E. Landers.
language: Portuguese
title: Bellini e a Esfinge
titlecomplete: Bellini e a Esfinge
genres: Fiction, Brazil, Mystery, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Crime
ratings_count: 161
publisher: Cia. das Letras