num_pages: 156
description: This is the first appearance in English of a Mexican novelist of enormous talent. His brilliant novel is based on fact: the discovery in the yard of a small-town brothel of the corpses of six prostitutes. In the laconic tones of a police report, Ibargüengoitia investigates the murders and their motives, the society and the profession - the oldest of all, but no less mysterious for that - which precipitated them. But this is no dry work of sociology or criminology; it is a work of fiction, a black comedy both moving and cruelly funny, a potent and entertaining blend of sex and mayhem...-Salman Rushdie
language: English
title: The Dead Girls
titlecomplete: The Dead Girls
genres: Literature, Crime, Literary Fiction, Novels, Latin American, Adult, Spanish Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery
ratings_count: 3780
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)