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Very Good (new or like new, without any signs of use)
Sin marcas, dos esquinas de la cubierta deslucidas
Penguin Books, 1999
160 pp.
ISBN 9780140286823
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Sin marcas, dos esquinas cubierta deslucidas
Rollo Martins’ usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend’s funeral. The victim of an apparently banal street accident, the late Mr. Lime, it seems, had been the focus of a criminal investigation, suspected of nothing less than being “the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city.” Martins is determined to clear his friend’s name, and begins an investigation of his own…