The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado - Softcover

Day, Marele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 186373323X ISBN 13: 9781863733236

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 1992

Synopsis

Claudia Valentine, a private investigator, tries to find out who killed her client and friend, Dolores Delgado, a tango dancer who had used a wall of lies and deception to conceal her past

About this title

About the Author:

Marele Day graduated from Sydney University with BA (Hons). She has worked as an academic teacher and freelance editor and travelled extensively. The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender was her first thriller, followed by The Case of the Chinese Boxes.

From Publishers Weekly:

Dolores Delgado danced with style (and a knife in her garter) until the night she collapsed on stage and died without regaining consciousness. The death looks suspicious to Sydney, Australia, PI Claudia Valentine, who was hired to help Dolores track down fabulous dress shops (PI business has been slow), but the police won't investigate. So, armed with keys to Dolores's apartment, she explores the dancer's life--or lives: Dolores's effects include three passports bearing different names, business suits, a company credit card and a book on doing business with the Japanese. Early in the investigation someone takes an interest in Claudia: after she is nearly run over, she acquires a persistent, yet amateurish, tail. The more Claudia uncovers--a businessman sugar daddy, a recent trip to a tourist town that seems much too bland for the flamboyant tango artiste--the more she realizes she didn't know Dolores at all. Day's ( The Case of the Chinese Boxes ) story is not for the prim; it is as tough and outrageous as the characters who populate it. But Dolores is quite a character, and Day plays her for all she's worth.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 186373323X
• ISBN 13: 9781863733236
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218