Southern seas
By: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán ; translated by Patrick Camiller
Contributors: Camiller, Patrick
Series: A Pepe Carvalho investigation; Melville international crime
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Brooklyn, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781612191171
Subjects: José Carvalho (Fictitious character); Private investigators; Murder; Investigation; Fiction
Work titles: Mares del sur
Description: "In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell--eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters--disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific. A year later he is found stabbed to death at a construction site in Barcelona. Gourmand gumshoe Pepe Carvalho is hired by Pedrell's wife to find out what happened. Carvalho must travel through circles of the old anti-Franco left wing on the trail of the killer. But with little appetite for politics, Carvalho also leads us on a tour through literature, cuisine, and the criminal underbelly of Barcelona in a typically brilliant twist on the genre by a Spanish master"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Translation of: Los mares del sur.