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Titan Comics (2020), 128 pages
Description
This classic noir story sees a young woman in a 20th Century banana republic dragged into a suspense-filled thriller - now in luxurious hardback featuring rich, intriguing colors for the first time! Set in an early 20th century Banana Republic, a young woman's virginity becomes the center of a disturbing mystery which escalates into a national scandal. The story unfolds between her relationship with the man hired to help her, and the danger they find themselves in when an enigmatic lizard-hitman called The Iguana will stop at nothing to conceal the truth.
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LibraryThing member villemezbrown
A sort of effed up retelling of Romeo and Juliet that liberally mixes in crime noir, magical realism, and metafiction until its just one giant mess.
A Robert Mitchum type is the alcoholic ex-cop turned private detective who intervenes in a blackmail scheme against a young woman put on a pedestal as
This 2020 Hard Case Crime release was originally published in Spanish in the 1990s.
A Robert Mitchum type is the alcoholic ex-cop turned private detective who intervenes in a blackmail scheme against a young woman put on a pedestal as
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the "Intact Virgin" by her dictator uncle in a vaguely 1950s vaguely Latin American country called, yes, La Colonia. Events unfold without much mystery or tension with regular insertions of sex (often of the rape and incest variety) and violence. Once an impossible number of events begin to pile up in the course of one night, the length of the night becomes a thing itself. The writer employs an "Our Town" device by having a couple secondary characters repeatedly break the fourth wall to address the reader about events in the book.This 2020 Hard Case Crime release was originally published in Spanish in the 1990s.
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1993
Physical description
128 p.; 11.13 inches
ISBN
1787730506 / 9781787730502