An Easy Thing (Missing Mystery, #49) - Softcover

Taibo, Paco Ignacio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590580060 ISBN 13: 9781590580066

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2002

Synopsis

Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. In this debut outing, our hero, who, incidentally, possesses an insatiable appetite for Coca Cola and cigarettes, tackles three cases simultaneously: a killing in a corrupt factory; the deadly threats against a former porn starlet's teenage daughter; and, strangely, the search for Emiliano Zapata, folk hero and leader of the Mexican Revolution, rumored to be alive and hiding out in a cave outside Mexico City.
Combining black comedy, social history and a touch of surrealism, Paco Taibo's wonderfully idiosyncratic detective novels are admired the world over and are particularly popular in Europe and in the Spanish-speaking world.

About this title

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

Review:

""I loved An Easy Thing -- its exuberance, color, and human concern. It throbs with the life of the city and rocks with its violence. We must have more of Paco Taibo this side of the border. We need his insights, his passion and compassion.""-Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Grand Master, Mystery Writers of America

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1590580060
• ISBN 13: 9781590580066
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240